Powerful Tools for Biotechnology - Biochips -LRB-
Chang Chiung - fang
PERSON
/ photos by
Hsueh Chi - kuang
PERSON
/ tr. by
Robert Taylor
PERSON
-RRB- The enterovirus detection biochip developed by
DR.
ORG
Chip Biotechnology takes
only six hours
TIME
to give hospitals the answer to whether a sample contains enterovirus , and if it is the deadly strain
Entero 71
FAC
. Worldwide , biotechnology is a rising star of the industrial stage . In
Taiwan
GPE
, in
recent years
DATE
the Ministry of Economic Affairs
ORG
,
the National Science Council
ORG
and
the National Health Research Institutes
ORG
have been strongly pursuing " biochip " research programs . In
the last two years
DATE
,
three
CARDINAL
biochip companies have also been set up in
Taiwan
GPE
. Just what are biochips ? What use are they to mankind ? Why do so many people have such confidence in their future ? What is the current state of this field in
Taiwan
GPE
?
And what are the prospects for future development ? Let 's take a closer look . In
just a few years '
DATE
time , or
a few decades
DATE
, the following scenario could become a reality : When you 're feeling under the weather , all you need to do is buy a diagnostic biochip from the chemist 's shop , put a drop of urine onto it , and you will find out what is wrong with you - a health check will be as easy as a pregnancy test
today
DATE
. Everyone will carry with them a biochip bearing a record and analysis of their own DNA . From it one will not only be able to see one 's own physical condition , but even to predict what diseases one will have in the future . It will be like an ID card , needed when looking for work , buying insurance or even seeking a partner for love and marriage . Laboratories will no longer need all kinds of large instruments , for all stages of their experiments will be carried out on little biochips , saving time , effort and money .
Today
DATE
, the scenes outlined above may just seem like pipe dreams . But these dreams could yet come true , and the key to that happening is those little biochips .
A dream come true ? Developments such as the sequencing of the human genome and the rapid development of genetic engineering have spawned biotechnology industries like bioinformatics , biomaterials and pharmaceutical engineering , which have emerged as the rising stars of
21st - century
DATE
industry . As part of the government 's efforts to promote the biotechnology industry in
Taiwan
GPE
, in
July 1999
DATE
the Industrial Technology Research Institute
ORG
-LRB- ITRI -RRB- set up
the Biomedical Engineering Center -LRB- BMEC -RRB-
ORG
to actively develop biomedical engineering technologies .
Biochips
ORG
are
one
CARDINAL
of the core technologies in the field . BMEC general director Dr.
Johnsee Lee
PERSON
says that the
ITRI
ORG
's
four - year
DATE
R&D program in biochip applications and technology is now in
its second year
DATE
. Its initial objectives are mainly focused on developing sensor chips to screen for infectious diseases , while later goals will be to develop technologies to test for genetic diseases and cancers . As well as this new research establishment , in
the two years
DATE
since
September 1998
DATE
three
CARDINAL
commercial companies have been set up in
Taiwan
GPE
to make biochips :
U - Vision Biotech
ORG
,
Taiwan Genome Sciences
ORG
and
DR
GPE
. Chip Biotechnology . Of these ,
DR
GPE
. Chip attracted much attention
this year
DATE
when it developed a chip to detect enteroviruses , a deadly epidemic of which has gripped
Taiwan
GPE
over
the last two years
DATE
.
Fever chips
DR
GPE
. Chip Bio-technology was set up in
September 1998
DATE
. Vice president
Wang Shin - hwan
PERSON
states that the company successfully applied to
the Ministry of Economic Affairs
ORG
for funding to help it pursue a development program for enterovirus detection chips and test technology .
Today
DATE
, the enterovirus chip is in the testing phase , and
DR
GPE
. Chip is collaborating with
Taipei Veterans General Hospital
ORG
to obtain samples with which to establish the accuracy of the chip . What is so remarkable about the enterovirus detection chip when compared with traditional test methods ? There are
68
CARDINAL
known forms of non-polio enterovirus . The detection chip does not simply determine whether a person is infected with enterovirus , but can also differentiate between different virus groups , for instance showing whether a sample contains the deadly
Entero 71
FAC
virus , or
Coxsackie A16
PERSON
, which is easily confused with
Entero 71
FAC
. In addition , the chip and its accompanying
PCR
ORG
kit greatly reduce the time required for testing .
Wang Shin - hwan
PERSON
notes that traditional bacterial and viral cultures take
seven to ten days
DATE
to prepare , and even with the newer molecular biology testing techniques it takes
three days
DATE
to get a result . But DR. Chip has developed methods to reduce the sample preparation time , which enables a result to be obtained in
only six hours
TIME
when used in combination with their enterovirus chip .
Furthermore , the initial results of joint trials by DR. Chip ,
Chang Gung University
PERSON
and
National Cheng Kung University
ORG
suggest that the chip is over a
thousand
CARDINAL
times more sensitive than traditional test methods . " In addition to enterovirus , we plan to develop chips to detect other infectious diseases such as hepatitis B , hepatitis C and HIV , " says
Wang Shin - hwan
PERSON
. Apart from the enterovirus chip , which is already at the testing stage , the
ITRI
ORG
's
Molecular Biomedical Technology Division
ORG
is also conducting research and development on biochip applications and technology . Research program director
Pan Chao - chi
PERSON
states that at present they are actively developing a " fever chip " with a wide range of applications .
Pan
PERSON
explains that in clinical practice , the causes of fever are difficult to quickly diagnose . A " fever chip " bearing the DNA of common fever - causing viruses and bacteria could be used to determine the cause of the fever and the type of pathogen involved would be a valuable tool . However ,
Pan
ORG
points out that because of the difficulties in substantially reducing the time needed for sample preparation , the usefulness of such a fever chip is still limited , so that it can not yet be widely promoted . Where the real money is At present , most applications for biochips are in academic research and the development of new pharmaceutical drugs .
Demand for them is growing rapidly .
Johnsee Lee
PERSON
says that according to
US
GPE
market research estimates , the worldwide
annual
DATE
consumption of microarray chips is currently
around 250,000
CARDINAL
; in
two years
DATE
this is expected to grow to
1.2 million
CARDINAL
. Based on a market price per chip of US$
1,000
MONEY
, the size of the world market in biochips could grow to
US$ 1.2 billion
MONEY
in
2003
DATE
, and to
US$ 40 billion
MONEY
over
the next decade
DATE
. Thus some people have set their sights on the biochip market , and believe that following
Taiwan
GPE
's success in the semiconductor field , the island could go on to be a major center for contract manufacture of biochips . Be that as it may , the small number of biochip companies so far established in
Taiwan
GPE
still find their market in domestic research establishments and pharmaceuticals manufacturers . Although they are also actively developing overseas markets , what interests them most is not biochips per se , nor are they content merely to be contract manufacturers . " The chips are only a tool , and the big money is not in chip sales . What counts is the R&D behind them . "
Jerry Huang
PERSON
, executive vice president of
U - Vision Biotech
ORG
, reveals that
U - Vision
ORG
, which was set up in
September 1999
DATE
, has signed a contract with the
US
GPE
company
Zen - Bio
ORG
to jointly develop human adipocyte cDNA microarray chips .
Huang
PERSON
states that research in
recent years
DATE
has revealed that adipocytes -LRB- fat cells
-RRB-
PERSON
are active regulators of the energy balance in the body , and play an important role in disorders such as obesity , diabetes , osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease .
Thus it is hoped that research into human adipocytes can help in the search for drugs and other therapies to treat these disorders . Apart from this ,
U - Vision
ORG
is also conducting a
one - year
DATE
bacterial genome project , which aims to map the genome of a certain drug - resistant bacterium as a basis for developing new vaccines and drugs . Drug development
Taiwan Genome Sciences -LRB-
ORG
TGS -RRB- , which was set up in
November 1999
DATE
as a joint venture by the Uni-President Enterprises Group ,
Yuen Foong Yu
PERSON
and
Tuntex Groups
ORG
, only entered the biotechnology fray in
April of this year
DATE
. CEO
Andrew Kuo
PERSON
says the investors came to the view that
Taiwan
GPE
needs to develop its biotechnology industries , and therefore they combined their resources to make a long - term investment in the field .
TGS
ORG
's strategy is to invest in a number of
US
GPE
genome research companies , and to sign technology transfer agreements and chip production contracts with them .
Kuo
PERSON
comments that contract production of chips is merely a service activity and a source of income for the company -
TGS
ORG
's ultimate goal is in doing R&D work to identify gene sequences as targets for developing new drugs .
Kuo
PERSON
states that at present , the number of known target sequences for disease - treating drugs is
only around 500
CARDINAL
, but as the human genome is mapped out this number can be expected to increase tenfold . Currently ,
TGS
ORG
has its sights set mainly on doing research into diseases which are especially prevalent in
Asia
LOC
, such as liver and stomach cancers .
A chip revolution However , the potential uses for biochips go far beyond the medical applications outlined above . Dr.
Johnsee Lee
PERSON
, who as well as heading up
the Biomedical Engineering Center
ORG
is also general director of
Union Chemical Laboratories
ORG
, a research institute under the
ITRI
ORG
umbrella , says that due to biochips ' advantages of miniaturization , parallelism , speed and the ability to reveal the " big picture , " they have a very wide range of applications . They can not only be used as a research tool in biological , medical and pharmaceutical research and development , and as a clinical diagnostic tool for doing health checks , testing for infectious pathogens , screening blood and so on , but they can also find uses in such areas as defense applications , police forensic work , environmental testing and food testing . Biochips come in
two
CARDINAL
main types : the microfluidics chip or " lab - on - a - chip , " and the microarray chip or " DNA chip . " Microfluidics chips bring together biotechnology , microelectronics , micromachining and other technologies to integrate the functions of multiple laboratory instruments onto a single chip in miniaturized form . Meanwhile on microarray chips , biological molecules such as gene segments , oligonucleotides , proteins or antibodies are bound to the chip surface in an array of tiny spots , and a single chip may carry
many tens of thousands
CARDINAL
of such spots . BMEC researcher
Pan Chao - chi
PERSON
uses the example of blood screening for a blood bank to illustrate the difference between the
two
CARDINAL
kinds of chips . To test a blood sample using a microarray chip , the sample must
first
ORDINAL
go through many preparatory steps such as purification , nucleotide extraction , copying , amplification and labeling before being put onto the chip where the " hybridization " reaction takes place . Finally , the results are analyzed using a detection system .
Hence these chips are only suitable for use in the laboratory . In contrast , with a lab - on - a - chip system , all the laboratory preparation stages will be done on the chip itself , so that the user need only place a drop of blood directly onto the chip to obtain a result . At present , microfluidics technology is not yet mature , and no such chips have been launched as commercial products anywhere . But , says
Pan Chao - chih
PERSON
: " This is the way future biochip development will go . " The poor man 's chip Future prospects also seem infinite for microarray chips , which are already widely used in laboratories and research establishments .
Jerry Huang
PERSON
notes that DNA chips are an indispensable research tool in molecular biology . On
one
CARDINAL
little biochip ,
tens of thousands
CARDINAL
of gene segments can be arranged to simultaneously detect the expression of
tens of thousands
CARDINAL
of genes . In other words , whereas in the past researchers had to investigate each gene individually ,
today
DATE
, using biochips , they can obtain test results for
tens of thousands
CARDINAL
of genes at once .
In particular , biochips not only can speed the pace of research , but can also replace laboratory animals such as rats and rabbits in many experiments , with tests being carried out directly on human genes on the chip . Thus as research tools biochips are not only convenient and quick , but also more humane . Dr.
Konan Peck
PERSON
, an assistant research fellow at
Academia Sinica 's
ORG
Institute of Biomedical Sciences
ORG
-LRB- IBMS -RRB- , says that biochips need to be made more widely available as a molecular biology research tool . With this in mind ,
Peck
PERSON
has developed nylon - based biochips which have been called " the poor man 's biochip , " since they cost a
third
ORDINAL
less than glass chips . Apart from the material itself being cheaper , the nylon chips use a visible - spectrum colorimetric system to display results , so that they can be read using an ordinary optical scanner , which costs
50 - 70 %
PERCENT
less than using a special laser detector . The nylon membrane biochips currently produced by
TGS
ORG
and
U - Vision Biotech
ORG
are all derived from the technology developed by
Konan Peck
PERSON
. Cutting edge Can
Taiwan
GPE
really repeat its success in the semiconductor industry , to become a major production center for biochips ?
BMEC
ORG
director
Johnsee Lee
PERSON
observes that the level of scientific and technical know - how required for biochip production is very high , so that the opportunities for contract manufacture are limited . However , due to
Taiwan
GPE
's early entry into biochip research and development , and the high state of development of its semiconductor industry , the island is well supplied with relevant technology and skills .
Thus , says
Lee
PERSON
, "
Taiwan
GPE
should have opportunities to enter this field not merely as a contract manufacturer . " The potential and importance of biochips is plain to see , but in this new , interdisciplinary industry , there are still many obstacles and difficulties to overcome . Apart from the fact that the technology is not yet mature , and that generally accepted , mutually compatible international standards have not yet emerged , the biggest bottleneck for biochips at the moment is the many
thousands
CARDINAL
of patents which have been taken out in the field , which limit the avenues available to each player . " Because this area is a patents minefield , it 's impossible to create a product which from start to finish does n't infringe on anyone else 's patents , " says
Johnsee Lee
PERSON
. In his view , this problem may be resolved in the future by the exchange of patented technologies between players . In other words , at this stage companies must actively carry out research and development , and obtain international patents , in order to have bargaining chips in future negotiations . At present , the
BMEC
ORG
has over
10
CARDINAL
patents pending in the areas of microfluidics biochips , chip surface processing technology and probe design and applications . Pushing the envelope Although at their present stage of development , biochips are already a great help to researchers , they are still far removed from ordinary people 's lives .
But
one day
DATE
they will play an important role in all our lives . " Applications and commercialization are our goal , " says
Johnsee Lee
PERSON
. He says that only if research results are commercialized does research produce an economic payback . Equally , to have a really broad market biochips need to go beyond the laboratory researcher , and into hospitals , clinics and homes , and to individual users .
Lee
PERSON
points out that before biochips will be worth commercializing , sample preparation needs to be made convenient , reading results must be simple and easy , the chips ' speed and accuracy must be high , and their cost must be low . He predicts that in
one to two years
DATE
, biochips will be suitable for use in supplemental tests , and after
around three years
DATE
for high - throughput screening ; in
five years
DATE
time it should be possible to develop them into general screening tools which will be as easy to use as the pregnancy test kits on the market
today
DATE
. IBMS associate research fellow
Konan Peck
PERSON
agrees that in the foreseeable future , diagnostic chips will enable everyone to learn their current state of health and know what diseases they may develop in the future . But in a situation where testing technology is ahead of medical treatment technology , the medical problems so discovered may not be treatable . Mankind is always challenging his limits , and when , in the near future , biochips lift the veil of many diseases , the next challenge will have only just begun .
Genteel Journalis --
Thomas Lu
PERSON
-LRB-
Eric Lin
PERSON
/ tr. by
Robert Taylor
PERSON
-RRB-
Thomas Lu
PERSON
is the doyen of the
Chinese
NORP
news media . Still out on the journalistic front lines at
81
CARDINAL
, this spry , forthright veteran has an immense zest for life . At
78
CARDINAL
, drawing on his astonishingly sharp memory , he completed his reminiscences and " record of emotional regrets . " He is not only one of the " wonders " of
Taiwan
GPE
's journalistic world , but is also recognized by those of his generation as a gentleman and a " good - looking man . " A person 's looks change with their age and their state of mind . Many friends have told me I look better the older I get . People do n't know that when I was young I had dreadful protruding teeth , but now not only do my teeth no longer show , but the lines of my face have also softened .
People who know me know that there have always been
two
CARDINAL
great loves in my life : the news , and women . Now that I 'm in my 80s , looking back I think I can say I 've done alright in both respects , and I 've learnt that both reporting the news well , and finding favor with women , depend on your character and conduct . Journalism is not just a profession , but should also be a vocation - you have to throw yourself fully into this infinitely broad field of endeavor . Intellectually and spiritually , in work and in love , I have gained experience and fulfilment . I have always remembered the encouragement which Mr.
Yu Youren
PERSON
gave me as a young reporter . He said that to be a fearless champion of social justice , as is expected of a journalist , the most important thing , apart from energy and vitality , is modesty . You have to treat everybody the same , and not be overawed by the great and powerful . A president or a street sweeper deserve the same respect as a human being , and should both be treated the same way . Funnily enough , an unassuming attitude is also advantageous in relations with the opposite sex .
Chinese
NORP
society is male dominated , and women are mostly regarded as having a subsidiary role . In this kind of unfair situation , an upstanding man should cherish and respect women all the more . A considerate attitude can be expressed in little things . For instance , when you see that a hair has fallen onto a female friend 's shoulder , you should lightly pick it off for her , and throw it away or put it in your pocket . If sincere , this kind of action is attractive in a man . If a woman expresses her liking for you , then no matter whether she is pretty , or whether you find her attractive , you should respond in the same way , and with the same respect . When I was a young reporter stationed in
Europe
LOC
, there was a
British
NORP
woman reporter who liked me very much . Once I was driving her somewhere to report a story when we had an accident , and she suffered some badly broken bones . Although I was n't attracted to her in that way , I went to see her every day in hospital , and this left a deep impression on her of how considerate
Chinese
NORP
men can be . Looking back at my life , I 've hardly had any really bad experiences in my relationships with women , and this is because just as in my professional life , I 've always maintained a self - critical attitude towards my emotions , and always tried to prevent myself acting like a male chauvinist .
Looks are something you are born with , but character is something you can work on , and it can outweigh your appearance .
Luo Jialun
PERSON
, one of the leading lights of
the May Fourth Movement
ORG
, is a famous example . Luo was not good looking , and was even ridiculed as " looking like a cross between a pig , a dog and a bear . " But he was tremendously well - read , had a beautiful writing style , and for a time he was
Chinese
NORP
ambassador to
India
GPE
. His wife was a universally admired beauty , the envy of all . So I say , " handsome is as handsome does . " I was imprisoned by both the
Kuomintang
ORG
and the
Communists
NORP
, and at times I might have been killed . Perhaps other people in the same situation might have wallowed in self - pity , but I saw it as a rare opportunity in life . In
1951
DATE
, in a dark prison cell during a big
Communist
NORP
purge , what came into my mind was not fear of death .
Instead , I wondered what kind of headline my death would merit in the newspapers . "
10,000
CARDINAL
Rush to See Lu Executed " ? Perhaps it was this eternal optimism which changed my frame of mind and my appearance . This is the advice I 'd like to give young people : it 's true that good looks can come from external grooming , wearing nice clothes , or wearing earrings ; and perhaps you can get other people 's attention by creating your own special look . But do n't overdo it . It is appropriate dress , and a temperament developed through study and practice , which really make a man attractive .
Tanshui
PERSON
: An Inspiration to Poets , Artists , and
Romantics
ORG
-LRB- Lin I - hsien / photos by
Diago Chiu
PERSON
/ tr. by
Phil Newell
PERSON
-RRB-
In paintings , a white cloud layer swirls over
Mt. Kuanyin
LOC
; waves on the river drift like a breeze ; a red sun dances on golden water ; a yellow moon sings from a deep purple sky . . . . The Tanshui of illustrations is a place of unblemished beauty , a myth that remains unshakeable . In the
300 - plus years
DATE
since its founding , this port town - formerly called
Huwei
PERSON
, now
Tanshui Township -
GPE
has seen days of prosperity and has also been through a baptism of fire . What makes it special among the
309
CARDINAL
urban and rural townships of
Taiwan
GPE
? How do the people of
Tanshui
GPE
live
today
DATE
? How do they recall the past ? And how do they see the future ?
" You want to know how
Tanshui
PERSON
has changed ? I would say that the biggest change is that the old streets are gone . " So declares
Tu Hsiu - yuan
PERSON
, proprietor of
the Hui Yuan Pharmacy
ORG
, and also director of
the Huwei Cultural and Historical Workshop
ORG
. His pharmacy is located on what is now called
Chungcheng Road
PERSON
, one of the oldest streets , which
Tanshui
ORG
natives still call
Huwei Street
FAC
.
Tu
PERSON
, who has lived his whole life in the old neighborhood , has watched from his doorstep as old shops have refurbished themselves in modern style , and modern shops have adopted the look of the old . For the convenience of cars , the streets have been widened repeatedly . In
1988
DATE
, the last train on the old
Tanshui Line
WORK_OF_ART
of the railroad chugged into history , taking that old slower pace of life with it . In
1997
DATE
the Tanshui Line
FAC
of the mass rapid transit system opened , bringing floods of visitors to the town . Yet , while these tourists bring a human touch to the streets on
weekends
DATE
and holidays , on ordinary weekdays the silence is accompanied only by leftover garbage , empty shops , and those
Huwei
ORG
people who refuse to leave their old homes .
The golden age of Huwei There are different explanations as to the origins of the word
Huwei
PERSON
, the original name for
Tanshui
PERSON
. Some say it was a transliteration of the place name used by the indigenous people . But others say it comes from a long - gone fishing practice , using
a shi hu -LRB-
PERSON
" stone pool "
-RRB-
PERSON
. Early fishermen used stones to carve a long , narrow catchment -LRB- the so - called " pool " -RRB- in the sand , waiting for the tide to carry in fish which they could then easily scoop up . Since the place now known as
Tanshui
PERSON
was at the tail end
-LRB- wei -RRB-
PERSON
of this stone pool , it came to be called
Huwei
PERSON
.
Tanshui
PERSON
occupied an important place in the transport network connecting
Taiwan
GPE
to
Southeast Asia
LOC
. Even before the arrival of
Westerners
NORP
in
Taiwan
GPE
,
Han
NORP
Chinese
NORP
often crossed over from
China
GPE
to
Tanshui
GPE
, which is relatively close to the mainland . Here they engaged in barter trade with the
Pingpu
GPE
-LRB- meaning " plains "
-RRB-
PERSON
aborigines , with deer skins and sulphur being the most coveted products . As
Western
NORP
powers turned their eyes to
Asia
LOC
,
Tanshui
PERSON
became strategically important .
In
the 17th century
DATE
,
first
ORDINAL
the
Spanish
NORP
, and then the
Dutch
NORP
, built forts here as symbols of their claims to territorial control . In
the mid-17th century
DATE
,
China
GPE
took control of
Taiwan
GPE
, and closed
Tanshui
PERSON
to international trade . Later , as a result of the
Sino - French
NORP
war of
1884
DATE
,
Tanshui
PERSON
was again opened up to Western access . During
Tanshui
GPE
's golden age , large and small boats were constantly coming and going in the harbor , and it was not unusual to see enormous steamships . In the latter part of
the Qing dynasty
DATE
,
Tanshui
PERSON
was the largest port in
Taiwan
GPE
, and was the " customs headquarters , " also charged with overseeing port activities at
Keelung
GPE
,
Tainan
GPE
, and
Kaohsiung
GPE
. However , during the
Japanese
NORP
occupation , as a result of silting , and because the
Japanese
NORP
invested a huge effort in developing the port at
Keelung
GPE
,
Tanshui
PERSON
faded in importance , never again to see the likes of its glory days .
Tanshui
PERSON
is a place of many historic sites , a place that invites reflection on things past . In the " foreign district , " a missionary named
George Mackay
PERSON
established the
first
ORDINAL
hospital for
Western
NORP
medicine in
Taiwan
GPE
; it was here that in
1878
DATE
the
first
ORDINAL
case of paragonimiasis in the world was diagnosed . The old church next to the hospital is a mecca for
Tanshui
GPE
painters .
The schools , homes , and consulates in the foreign district - some long gone , some still standing - testify to the fact that this was a place of intensive interaction between
Chinese
NORP
and
Western
NORP
cultures . If you go up
Sanmin Street
FAC
, you will discover the head of an old and disused water pipe . This could be a relic left behind by
one
CARDINAL
of the major
Japanese
NORP
infrastructure projects , the
first
ORDINAL
tap water station . Or you could walk instead next to the
MRT
FAC
station and see another
first
ORDINAL
for
Taiwan
GPE
: the
first
ORDINAL
seaplane landing area , also built in the
Japanese
NORP
occupation era . Or you could visit the venerable
Tamkang Secondary School
ORG
. As you watch the children laughing and arguing and playing , you can think back to the time when the
Japanese
NORP
government did not allow
Taiwanese
NORP
and
Japanese
NORP
to attend school together . Under those circumstances ,
Tamkang Middle School
ORG
became a cradle for the training of
Taiwanese
NORP
elites . Gradually you will discover that
Tanshui
GPE
is a bookish place . This little town has everything from nursery schools to graduate schools . During the reign of the
Guangxu
ORG
emperor of
the Qing dynasty -LRB-
DATE
which began in
1875
DATE
-RRB-
PERSON
, and prior to the beginning of the
Japanese
NORP
occupation in
1895
DATE
,
Tanshui
ORG
produced
two
CARDINAL
successful candidates in the highest level military exam , one in the highest level civil exam , and countless successes in lower - level imperial exams .
Even in modern times , the town has not passed up chances to embrace knowledge : When the idea of founding
Tam - kang University
ORG
in
Tanshui
GPE
was going to be abandoned because of a lack of land and money , local residents offered cheap land , donated money , and lobbied so that the university could set its roots in town . These historic sites are near the river , but do n't spend all your time there . Do n't forget
the Tatun Mountains
LOC
, which shelter the town . In
the old days
DATE
,
Tanshui
PERSON
folk who cultivated farms on the slopes had to walk for
an hour
TIME
to get to their crops . These days you can take a local mini-bus . In the mountains you will see the occasional terraced field grown over with weeds . This land , which has gone from grass to grain and back to grass again , is where many an old
Tanshui
PRODUCT
native played when they were children . The Tanshui mystique The mountains are also filled with old stories .
The often - renovated
Hsing Chung Tang
PERSON
shop is
more than a century old
DATE
. Owner
Li Yung - kun
PERSON
is a descendant of the eminent
Li
PERSON
family of
Tanshui
GPE
, which produced
three
CARDINAL
juren -LRB- a successful candidate in provincial - level exams , held every three years
-RRB-
PERSON
. The house testifies to this past : It has a swallow - tailed roof and a flagpole , features that only the home of a juren was entitled to have .
Li Mingbin -LRB-
PERSON
whose name by birth is
Li Minghui -RRB-
PERSON
, a scholar from
Beijing University
ORG
currently working at
Chinese Culture University
ORG
on an exchange program , is a descendant of the juren
Li Yingzhen
PERSON
, who was wounded resisting the
Japanese
NORP
occupation and fled to the mainland , where he settled down . Like his elders ,
Li Mingbin
PERSON
bridges the gap across
the Taiwan Strait
LOC
, as he is capable of conversing fluently in either
Beijing
GPE
dialect or the southern
Fujian
GPE
dialect used in
Taiwan
GPE
. Of course , stories do n't have to be old to be interesting .
Today
DATE
's
Tanshui
ORG
residents are living their own stories . The crotchety but modest guy who delivers the newspapers , the seafood restaurant owner who has made his fortune from scratch , the old man at the roadside food stall , the hostess in the tea house greeting and sending off guests . . . . Some are active in
the early morning
TIME
, some late at night . Though the founders of many of these shops have passed away , the
second
ORDINAL
generation has taken the baton .
In the old bamboo tea shop , the now elderly hostess still plays her role amidst the ambience of wine and tea , offering a feminine presence to help put at ease her customers who come looking for a little relaxation , evoking the bewitching atmosphere of
Tanshui
GPE
at
night
TIME
. Businessmen from outside , smelling profits , have set up gaudy storefronts and neon signs , hoping to trade on
Tanshui
PERSON
's mystique to sell coffee , seafood , antiques , and snack foods . Students , who have enough money to keep several streets of shops going , carelessly wheel their motorcycles through the narrow streets , their minds elsewhere , thinking of youthful fun or romance . Happy couples and jilted lovers line the river , displaying their joy or sadness in their postures :
two
CARDINAL
people 's shadows are melted together by the darkened river behind , while others stand alone on the riverbank like statues . The weeping river Have you heard of the weeping junks ? During the
Sino - French
NORP
war ,
Taiwan
GPE
governor
Liu Mingchuan
PERSON
, attempting to obstruct a
French
NORP
landing , scuttled several of these boats . It is said that ,
late at night
TIME
, the sunken junks make moaning sounds . But I think that it may be the river itself that is moaning .
In
1998
DATE
, the government produced a plan for a riverside expressway to
Tanshui
GPE
. The road , which was expected to have
three
CARDINAL
levels , would have cut through rare mangroves and created a barrier between the river and the town of
Tanshui
GPE
. If the plan had been implemented , people who wanted to go to
Tanshui
GPE
and gaze out over the river would have had to find some very high vantage point in town to do so ! Fortunately , thanks to efforts by cultural and environmental activists from
Tanshui
GPE
, the plan was
first
ORDINAL
postponed , and then was ultimately killed after an environmental impact assessment released in
September
DATE
refused to approve the scheme . But a question remains : Is something like this bound to come sooner or later ? " For the purposes of development , the
Tanshui
GPE
coast has been constantly exploited . But what will be result of this incessant struggle against nature ? " says an agitated
Tu Hsiu - yuan
PERSON
. And
Hsieh Teh - hsi
PERSON
of
the Tamsui Culture Foundation
ORG
adds : " High - rises are going up one after another in
Tanshui New Town
FAC
[ a huge government - planned development ] , but many of the apartments remain empty . Everybody here knows that when the northeast winds blow in during
the winter
DATE
, that is the coldest place around . No wonder those apartments are not selling ! "
Tu says , with disbelief and exasperation in his voice : " Do you know that they are going to build a huge bridge between
Tanshui
PERSON
and
Pali
PERSON
? It 's such a beautiful and historic location , but they are just going to stick up a bridge there , and they are even talking about having a rotating restaurant on top ! "
Lovers of Tanshui
WORK_OF_ART
, while keeping close watch over her , are fearful that the giant beast of development may eventually come and bulldoze
Tanshui
PERSON
away one piece of land at a time . They fear that their children , like they themselves , will have to search through photographs and memories to find
Tanshui
PERSON
's traditional simplicity and the joys of being close to nature . When the old buildings are gone , and people lose contact with the great outdoors , will
Tanshui
ORG
even be worthy of its reputation anymore ? Scattered wooden fishing boats bob in the river . I have n't met any of the fishermen who these days go out and catch only small fry . They might relate how in the old days they could just put a hand in the river and come up with a big catch . The lonely fishing boats are waiting for
the Tanshui - Pali
FAC
ferry to pass by and say hello . Those lanterns moving through the river are actually the ferry , while those stars flashing in the distance are beams of light that come from the lighthouse
every five seconds
TIME
.
It is only now that I realize that , even in the drabbest weather ,
Tanshui
PERSON
is still beautiful .
Taiwan
GPE
's Townships When you look at a map , what do the
309
CARDINAL
townships of
Taiwan
GPE
mean to you ? Do you draw a complete blank on all of them ? Or do some of the names evoke beautiful memories ? What do these townships have to offer visitors ? What interesting or famous characters have they given birth to ? In this age of the global village , how much do you know about the village next door ?
Sinorama
ORG
wants to take you on a journey through
Taiwan
GPE
's
309
CARDINAL
townships large and small : As they follow their individual rhythms , what is it that enables them to create their own music , and what can we hear in the songs they sing ?
Tanshui Facts and
Figures Tanshui Township -LRB-
PERSON
also spelled
Tamsui -RRB-
PERSON
is part of
Taipei County
GPE
. It abuts
Sanchih Rural Township
ORG
to the northeast , the
Kuantu
ORG
area of
Taipei City
GPE
to the southeast , and
the Taiwan Strait
LOC
to the northwest ; to the southwest it faces
Pali Rural Township
PERSON
over
the Tanshui River
LOC
. It covers an area of just over
70 square kilometers
QUANTITY
, and has a population of
115,000
CARDINAL
. It is the largest paddy - rice producing area in
Taipei County
GPE
. In
days
DATE
gone by , because the
Kuroshio
GPE
current passes close by , the waters offshore were rich fishing grounds . However , in
recent years
DATE
, pollution from
the Tanshui River
LOC
and exhaustion of fish stocks have caused the catch to dwindle . Among the more famous tourist sites are
Fort San Domingo
GPE
,
Yin Shan Temple
PERSON
, the Lixuetang school -LRB- known in
English
LANGUAGE
as
Oxford College
ORG
, founded in
1882
DATE
to train missionaries
-RRB-
PERSON
,
Huwei
PERSON
cannon emplacement , the mangrove conservation area ,
Shalun
GPE
beach recreation area , the historic buildings of
the Mackay Hospital
ORG
and
Tamkang Middle School
ORG
, "
Antiques Street
FAC
" -LRB-
Chungcheng Road
PERSON
-RRB- , and the ferry pier . Public transportation includes inter-city bus service ,
the Tanshui Line
FAC
of the
Taipei
GPE
mass rapid transit system , and local buses .
For more detailed information visit
http://www.tamsui.gov.tw/
ORG
. p.
094
CARDINAL
High - rises are thought by many to represent development , but in
Tanshui
GPE
they are ruining the skyline and the historic ambience of the town . p.
095
CARDINAL
An old
Tanshui
PERSON
resident sits with legs crossed reading the paper , as the passage of time , marked on the calendar on the wall , adds a gloss to the antiques . p.
096
CARDINAL
-LRB- facing page -RRB- These lovers may be gazing at
Tanshui
GPE
with their eyes , but their hearts have eyes only for one another .
Tranquil
GPE
and romantic
Tanshui
PERSON
is a great place for wedding photos .
p.
097
CARDINAL
As the lazy sun displays an extraordinary beauty , a fishing boat drifts toward shore over the golden water . Turning to the
Constitution
LAW
on the "
One
CARDINAL
China
GPE
" Issue Still wrestling with the vexed issue of "
one
CARDINAL
China
GPE
, " the President 's
Advisory Group
ORG
on
Cross-Strait Relations
ORG
met for its
sixth
ORDINAL
and
seventh
ORDINAL
sessions during
November
DATE
, amid frenzied media attention . The group eventually reached a consensus that the "
one
CARDINAL
China
GPE
" principle advocated by the mainland should be addressed " in accordance with the constitution . " How president
Chen Shui - bian
PERSON
responds to this proposal will determine whether or not the "
one
CARDINAL
China
GPE
" stalemate can be broken , and if there is to be a set timetable for implementing the
three
CARDINAL
direct links . After assuming the presidency ,
Chen Shui - bian
PERSON
recruited a number of leading politicians , industrialists , academics and other personages for a non-partisan advisory group , intended to build cross-party consensus on the subject of relations with the mainland . Chaired by
Academia Sinica
ORG
president
Lee Yuan - tseh
PERSON
,
the Presidential Advisory Group
ORG
on
Cross-Strait Relations
ORG
first
ORDINAL
met in
early September
DATE
.
Since then the
Group
ORG
has held a series of intensive discussions on
Taiwan
GPE
's fundamental position regarding the cross-strait relationship . The
Group
ORG
entered the final phase of discussions on the "
one
CARDINAL
China
GPE
" issue during
November
DATE
, but differences between pro-unification and pro-independence participants continued to stymie the effort to produce a statement acceptable to all . As
DPP
ORG
legislator
Shen Fu - hsiung
PERSON
pointed out , the
Group
ORG
had to draft something " palatable both to the pro-unification and pro-independence camps ; something which the
DPP
ORG
ca n't shun and yet which does n't make
Beijing
GPE
wince . " Clearly no easy task . On
the evening
TIME
of
November 18
DATE
Advisory Group
ORG
chairman
Lee Yuan - tseh
PERSON
, meeting over dinner with
DPP
ORG
faction leaders , described the cross-strait situation as extremely precarious , and said that since time is not on
Taiwan
GPE
's side we need to step up efforts to resume dialogue with the mainland . Separately , during his report to
the Legislative Yuan
ORG
on
the Academia Sinica 's
ORG
budget ,
Lee
PERSON
reiterated : " If the whole population could arrive at a consensus on '
one
CARDINAL
China
GPE
, ' then President
Chen
PERSON
would have no grounds for not accepting that consensus . "
Lee
PERSON
added that he hoped
the Advisory Group
ORG
would shortly come to a firm conclusion on the "
one
CARDINAL
China
GPE
" issue .
Lee Yuan - tseh 's
PERSON
appeal made little impression on the governing
DPP
ORG
, however . Furthermore ,
DPP
ORG
chairman
Frank Hsieh
PERSON
himself came under fire within the party after stating : " The constitution of the
ROC
GPE
is itself a
one
CARDINAL
China
GPE
framework . Since the
DPP
ORG
has participated in the process of constitutional amendment it ought to accept this constitution , and as the party of government we ca n't afford to override or reject it . "
According to
DPP
ORG
lawmaker
Lin Cho - shui
PERSON
,
Chen Shui - bian
PERSON
has shown more goodwill to
Beijing
GPE
as president than
Lee Teng - hui
PERSON
ever did , but without any response - so why should he once again be expected to respond on the "
one
CARDINAL
China
GPE
" issue ? Also ,
Lin
PERSON
disagrees with
Lee Yuan - tseh 's
PERSON
assertion that " time is not on our side , " and instead feels that things are no worse than before . Meanwhile , the opposition alliance has been calling for the
DPP
ORG
to " shed its ideological baggage . " On
November 24
DATE
the New Party
ORG
, which had already pulled out of
the Advisory Group
ORG
, published an article in the press signed by leading members such as
Yu Mu - ming
PERSON
and
Chen Kui - miao
PERSON
, in which they called on the government to take the constitution as its starting point for breaking the "
one
CARDINAL
China
GPE
" deadlock . They pointed out that
Chen
PERSON
and the
DPP
ORG
had competed in elections in accordance with the constitution , winning the presidency and a share of seats in the legislature and
the National Assembly
ORG
, and had also participated in the process of revising the constitution . Now , with its constitutionally granted mandate , the party has an obligation to fully uphold the constitution . As the politicians argued ,
Formosa Plastics
ORG
boss
Wang Yung - ching
PERSON
convened a meeting with other captains of industry to come up with some advice for the government on economic policy . For the
first
ORDINAL
time
Wang
ORG
voiced support for
Lee Yuan - tseh
PERSON
's proposal that " with ' one
China
GPE
' as the precondition , each side can have its own interpretation . "
Wang
ORG
also agreed with
Lee
PERSON
's notion that time is running out for
Taiwan
GPE
, in the belief that
Taiwan
GPE
will only have time on its side once it starts to carry out well - intentioned engagement with the mainland . Consensus on the "
one
CARDINAL
China
GPE
question " is an urgent priority for both sides if there is to be a peaceful future .
Wang Yung - ching 's
PERSON
demand for a review of the government 's " go slow " policy , and opening of the
three
CARDINAL
direct links , brought a personal phone call from the president , who invited him to come and discuss policy . On
November 25
DATE
Wang
ORG
and a handful of other leading industrialists went to call on the president at his official residence . The businessmen said that shelving the "
one
CARDINAL
China
GPE
" issue was not the right thing for the government to do , and that
Taiwan
GPE
could no longer afford to play word games . They stressed the need for early restoration of the mechanism for cross-strait economic dialogue , and said that the government should also think about moving towards political dialogue .
The Presidential Advisory Group
ORG
met again on
November 26
DATE
, and discussed a proposal , made earlier by
Public Television System
ORG
chairman
Wu Feng - shan
PERSON
and already favored by most members of the
Group
ORG
, for "
one
CARDINAL
China
GPE
" to be addressed through "
three
CARDINAL
acknowledgements and
four
CARDINAL
suggestions . " A firm consensus was finally arrived at , and the
Group
ORG
submitted to the president its proposal that
Taiwan
GPE
should " respond to the mainland 's ' one
China
GPE
' proposition in accordance with the constitution of the
ROC
GPE
. " The government and opposition parties continued to disagree regarding this consensus .
DPP
ORG
legislator
Lin Cho - shui
PERSON
described it as " acceptable , if not very satisfactory . "
PFP
ORG
spokesman
Li Ching - an
PERSON
called it " a conclusion without a conclusion . "
New Party
ORG
convenor
Hau Lung - pin
PERSON
said the statement was too ambiguous , tending towards "
one
CARDINAL
China
GPE
, with each side free to make its own interpretation , " and added that it was highly unlikely to be used by the president as a guide for cross-strait policy .
Ting Shou - chung
PERSON
, deputy executive director of the
KMT
ORG
policy committee , said this so - called consensus was simply a case of going round and round on the spot , and would do nothing to solve the core problem . In a
November 28
DATE
press release ,
the Mainland Affairs Council
ORG
-LRB-
MAC
ORG
-RRB- , the government body in charge of cross-strait affairs , diplomatically stated that it would observe and implement the suggestions of
the Advisory Group
ORG
if and when they become official government policy . Speaking on the topic of the
three
CARDINAL
direct links ,
MAC
ORG
chairwoman
Tsai Ing - wen
PERSON
said that these will be phased in according to conditions , with the
first
ORDINAL
phase being the opening of direct business links as necessitated by the admission of both sides to the
WTO
ORG
. And according to economics minister
Lin Hsin - yi
PERSON
, the government recognizes that the " go slow " policy needs to be relaxed , and will give a more thorough accounting of this before
the end of the year
DATE
. Tips for Getting through Middle Age -LRB-
Laura Li
PERSON
/ photos by
Hsueh Chi - kuang
PERSON
/ tr. by
Jonathan Barnard
PERSON
-RRB-
Middle age and the changes it brings are like a revolving door . Many people peacefully go through it , growing wiser and losing their rough edges . A minority do n't know whether to advance or retreat and get caught in it like a trap . Middle age is a time where
one
CARDINAL
wears more hats than at any other time in one 's life , when one 's responsibilities are heaviest . As a result , the crises experienced by a minority of middle - aged people can involve a lot of other people , so their impact can not be overlooked . Middle age , those years
between 40 and 60
DATE
, is both the time of life of greatest glory and the time of life that 's easiest to overlook . In comparison to youth or old age ,
the middle years
DATE
are often thought of as the time when power , ability , wealth , and physical strength are all at or near their peak , so that one has no excuse for feeling melancholy . Even if there are problems , it is commonly thought that one should be able to resolve them by oneself , notes
Chiu Chia - li
PERSON
, director of
the Hwo Chyuan Pastoral Counseling Center
ORG
, who has worked on many middle - aged cases . Social bias makes many of the middle aged afraid to discuss their problems . This is particularly the case for men , who generally find it difficult to talk about their feelings .
But by keeping everything inside , they may cause irreparable harm to their health . In
recent years
DATE
cancer , sudden death and suicide have become all too common during middle age , which shows that the psychological problems of the middle - aged should not be overlooked . How do you safely pass through the changes of
the middle years
DATE
? Here are a few suggestions :
1.
CARDINAL
Live well at every stage of life
Li Liang - che
PERSON
, a professor of psychology at
National Chengchi University
ORG
, looks at the question from the angle of developmental psychology . He points out that the path of life is continuous : everyone moves from infancy and childhood , to youth and middle age . Smoothly passing through any period of life helps make getting through the next period easier . In other words , the people most at risk during middle age are those who have had difficulties earlier in life .
Foreign research shows that those with high social and economic status and with ample financial resources bear up better during crisis and have more ways to get out of trouble . Is it too late to start talking about these problems when you are already middle - aged ?
Chang Der - chung
PERSON
, an associate professor in
the Department of Living Science at
ORG
National Open University
ORG
who worked at a counseling hotline for over a decade , argues that any step in the right direction is worthwhile , no matter when you start . Middle - aged problems are rather predictable , and they 're not hard to avoid . Are you worried that your marriage is growing stale ? Then no matter how busy you are , you 've got to set aside some time to be with your spouse . Are you worried about losing your job ? Then start developing a
second
ORDINAL
skill and get into the habit of saving and managing your money . Are you worried about how to care for your parents when they get old and sick ? Then spend more time with them , and encourage them to get more exercise and take care of themselves .
There are so many things to be concerned about during middle age that you had better get an early start . Otherwise , you 'll end up being overwhelmed .
2.
CARDINAL
Start over In
China
GPE
it used to be said that middle age was the period when one was " heir to the ancient sages and the teacher of posterity . " But now times are changing so fast that perhaps the lessons of past experience are no longer suitable for solving
today
DATE
's problems . To assume a posture of superiority based on one 's seniority will make one despised . Hence , it is necessary to cast aside one 's old self and start over .
Chiu
PERSON
notes that many middle - aged who have worked diligently for
years
DATE
to attain management positions look down on the younger generation for being reckless and disorganized , but they do n't realize that creativity and energy may be ready to explode from underneath these flaws . Stuck in the past and full of bitterness , they may end up getting discarded onto the scrap heap of history .
With each new era , role models change . Until the new role models have been established , it is important to maintain flexibility . For instance ,
today
DATE
's middle - aged
Chinese
NORP
women are the
first
ORDINAL
to have obtained advanced degrees and to have come in contact with the women 's liberation movement . They set high expectations for themselves , but their disappointments are likewise large . Many women are torn between conflicting desires : to be good homemakers like their mothers and to have successful careers like their fathers . Their candles are burning at both ends , because they are trying to live up to
two
CARDINAL
old role models rather than establishing a new one for themselves . Then there are men who insist upon being strict fathers and disciplinarians or staying at the same company until they retire . And there are women who are determined to play the role of the traditional
Chinese
NORP
wife and mother . Ignoring the changing times , they place tremendous pressure on themselves .
3
CARDINAL
. Turn the focus from outside to inside
Life
ORG
is a process that moves from the " outward " to the " inward , " says
Alice Lu
PERSON
, director of
the International Family Life Education Center
ORG
, getting to the heart of the matter .
Lu
PERSON
explains that as children people yearn for the affection of their parents ; as adolescents they want the affirmation of their peers ; and as adults , they set their sights on educational qualifications , finding a good job , making money , marrying a good spouse and so forth . Everyone puts the emphasis on outward manifestations of success , and this emphasis on the glitter of outward achievement continues up to middle age . " By middle age , people have gotten from the outside world just about all they can , " says
Lu
PERSON
. " What they have n't attained yet they probably wo n't attain ever , so it 's not worth getting all worked up about it . This is the time of life when the doubts set in . " Many middle - aged people begin to ask themselves , " Is this really what I want ? What has been the point of all my hard striving ? " When the doubts come , some people continue trying to find answers from outside , thinking that everything would be fine if they could just change jobs or wives !
But then they rashly switch jobs or foolishly get involved in an affair only to find that they 've just made things worse . " In middle age you start to listen to what 's going on inside , " says
Lu
PERSON
. " It 's the time of life when you start to hone your skills at conversing with your soul . " People ask themselves : Am I truly happy ? Do I like the person I see in the mirror ? Why ? What dreams can I pursue ? At this point , there is no longer any need to try to measure oneself against outside standards . Instead it 's more important to accept oneself and attempt to find an inner balance . "
One
CARDINAL
need not compare one 's inner achievements with those of other people , " notes
Chiu
PERSON
.
Everyone 's circumstances and personalities are different , and they place different expectations on themselves . It 's not a matter of being better or worse than anyone else , and there 's no need to follow the currents of fashion . Everyone is unique .
Morris Chang
PERSON
was in his fifties when he became an entrepreneur and founded
Taiwan Semiconductor
ORG
. Many others at the same time in life have opted to take early retirement and find a guru in
India
GPE
, work as a volunteer , or do whatever else they want to do . In the modern age when people value different things , you can find a purely personal kind of happiness and success .
4.
CARDINAL
Realistically strive for one 's dreams When focusing inward , many dreams that have long been discarded will end up floating to the surface . At such times , one should remember to ask oneself
three
CARDINAL
questions :
" What do I want ? " " What can I do ? " And " What must I do and have ? "
Chang Der - chung
PERSON
reminds people to think clearly about their needs , and then think about the costs . Will meeting these personal needs necessarily come into conflict with meeting one 's responsibilities ? Is there some way that the
two
CARDINAL
can be accomplished simultaneously ? When facing problems at work in
Taiwan
GPE
, many people decide to change careers or even to pursue their fortunes in mainland
China
GPE
or
Southeast Asia
LOC
. Pursuing some dream of really making it big , many men use up their savings , leaving their wives as the sole source of family support and suffering loneliness in a foreign land . There 's no right or wrong here , and there 's no way to guarantee a venture will be successful , but beforehand one must at least be realistic and prepare oneself psychologically for all possible outcomes , so that one wo n't suffer losses larger than one can bear . " It is indeed the case that when one is young , one 's quiver is full of arrows and opportunities abound , so that one can shoot at will , " says
Chang
PERSON
by way of analogy . " Once you get into middle age , you 've got to make every arrow count . "
Chang
PERSON
explains that everyone has dreams , and that continually working toward those dreams is an excellent method of relieving stress at any age .
Middle - aged people have heavy burdens , and sometimes they may feel as if they are suffocating under them . " But accomplishing a lot of little changes can bring about a big change . " If you make an effort to do what you can , you will immediately find that your burdens have been lightened .
Chang
PERSON
cites this example : Say you hate being tied up by your work , and would like to go back to school . Why do n't you try a weekend class ? Maybe that would help to alleviate your anxiety . Or if you are a housewife , taking care of
three
CARDINAL
generations and resentful that you ca n't go out and get the sense of accomplishment that comes with a full - time job , then maybe you could work as a volunteer in a community organization . This would both put you into contact with other people and help you gain a sense of accomplishment . And you can help to sweat off your middle - aged anxieties by making a habit of regularly exercising . What 's more , do n't worry too much about time being short .
Remember that most modern people live long lives that can be divided up into many stages . In middle age , when you discover that your personal desires are coming into conflict with the demands of your family or society , decide which of your problems are the most urgent . Do n't try to accomplish all of your dreams at once . Maintain an unhurried frame of mind and peacefully wait for opportunities to present themselves .
5
CARDINAL
. Change your perspective In middle age , one 's life is already
half
CARDINAL
over , and one has already amply tasted of life 's fruits , both the bitter and the sweet . " I am thankful for the bad times , for they have given me more insight into life and a better opportunity to understand myself , " says
Lin Hung - kuei
PERSON
, an I - kuan Tao devotee , who has studied
the Book of Changes
WORK_OF_ART
and fengshui . Taking care of your parents , losing your job , illness and even being cheated out of money can be embraced as opportunities to experience life . They are lessons that the middle - aged learn from to become more proficient at the art of living .
" By changing perspective , you can understand the insignificance of your problems , " points out
Chiu Chia - li
PERSON
. It is very important to adjust your frame of mind . You should n't think that there is only one way that you can be . As long as you can accept yourself , then everything is all right . As for losing your job in middle age , some people make
NT$ 100,000
MONEY
and it 's not enough . Other's find that
NT$ 20,000
MONEY
is more than enough to support the family . The problem is that by insisting on making
NT$ 100,000
MONEY
a month , you may pass by a suitable job that pays
NT$ 20,000
MONEY
.
Chang
PERSON
also notes that when people come to forks in the road when they reach middle age , they may look around in all directions and feel at a loss , but they 've got to encourage themselves to keep pressing ahead . " Even if you feel uncertain , it should be a positive feeling of uncertainty . " At the very least , you 've got to work hard at establishing a sense of direction .
When
Li Liang - che
PERSON
starts feeling sorry for himself , he uses the age - old method of considering those who are even worse off . Those people who are always complaining about their lot in life should take a walk around a cancer ward , "
Li
PERSON
says . Then they 'll realize how lucky they are . "
Chiu Chia - li
PERSON
, on the other hand , encourages the middle - aged not to close themselves off . They must get out and make friends , so as to get things off their chests and find support from each other . This makes it easier to get through the bad times . Finally , there is something that may seem a little cliched but is often very useful - namely the realization that things will get better , that
tomorrow
DATE
is
another day
DATE
. " Whether you are depressed or going berserk , it 's important to remember that hormones are raging inside the bodies of the middle - aged , " says
Chang
PERSON
. Much like rebellious adolescents , they may merely need to pass through into another stage for the sky to become blue again . Do n't give up hope too early , and do n't be afraid of asking for assistance .
When you feel at a loss emotionally , the experts will be able to help . p.
18
CARDINAL
The shackles of midlife make middle - aged steps heavy . How can
one
CARDINAL
escape from one 's commitments to snatch
half a day
DATE
of freedom , and appreciate the world from a new perspective ? p.
20
CARDINAL
-LRB- facing page -RRB- The middle - aged have dreams . If built on a solid foundation , they can make life more enjoyable and fulfilling . p.
22
CARDINAL
Is life getting you down ? Go into the crowd , find things to do , and you will rediscover a sense of the value of life . The Remaking of Linpien Home of
the Black Pearl Wax Apple
ORG
-LRB-
Teng Sue - feng
PERSON
/ photos by
Jimmy Lin
PERSON
/ tr. by
Christopher MacDonald
PERSON
-RRB- Even if the township of
Linpien
GPE
does n't have a monopoly on the cultivation of " black pearl " wax apples , it was orchards in the
Linpien
GPE
locality that earned black pearls their national renown . A little town formerly notorious for its ground subsidence problem ,
Linpien
PERSON
is now turning itself into one of
Southern Taiwan 's
LOC
premier tourist attractions . The impetus for this change has come chiefly from local historians , along with various voluntary groups . Just before
Christmas
DATE
break , the rural township of
Linpien
GPE
, on
the Pingtung Plain
LOC
at the mouth of the
Linpien
GPE
river , held its
first
ORDINAL
ever
Wax Apple Festival
ORG
.
The festival , in the town 's riverside park , was held to promote black pearl wax apples and celebrate the local volunteer spirit . It was a scorching hot day , and heavily perspiring visitors were to be seen wandering among the stalls , lugging bags of wax apples and commenting on their remarkable sweetness . " There 's a lot more than you 'd think to growing wax apples , " says local farmer
Chen Sheng - tzung
PERSON
. " How you take care of the orchards , which equipment you use - it all has an affect on the shape and texture of the fruit . " Prices for wax apples range widely , from
around 3 pounds
QUANTITY
for
NT$ 100
MONEY
to
NT$ 150
MONEY
a pound . Fruit that shows a hint of black through the red color of the skin fetches the best price .
Huang Wan - fu
PERSON
, whose family farms
two
CARDINAL
hectares of orchard with
more than 700
CARDINAL
wax apple trees , and who has over
30 years '
DATE
experience as a fruit grower , says that while other parts of
Pingtung County
GPE
also grow wax apples , "
Linpien
PERSON
stands out for its growing techniques , developed through trial and error by the growers themselves , and for vernalization rates of
up to 90 %
PERCENT
. " Ugly duckling no more The wax apple is a tropical fruit originating from the
Malay
NORP
peninsula .
The
Dutch
NORP
brought it to
Taiwan
GPE
from
Java
PERSON
, in
the 17th century
DATE
, and it became commonly grown as a shade - giving tree . Old folk in the
South
LOC
remember when wax apples were " just something to munch on " - the kind of fruit that grew freely and that you could help yourself to . But wax apples have increased in value during
the past 30 years
DATE
, thanks to advances in the way that they are grown . For example , the " bag - wrap " method was originally a way of protecting budding fruit from birds , but once it was introduced to
Linpien
PERSON
, in
around 1994
DATE
, farmers found it enabled them to grow more lustrous , shiny - looking wax apples , with less pesticide on the skin . The method soon caught on throughout the district . Another popular technique involves covering the trees with black mosquito nets to improve yields . This reduces the amount of sunlight reaching the trees , causing nutrients from the leaves and branches to be diverted into producing fruit . The net - covered trees blossom earlier and produce more fruit . As a result of this technique , black pearl wax apples are now available throughout most of
the year
DATE
. The " black pearl " tag did n't originate in
Linpien
GPE
, but it was
Linpien
PERSON
wax apples that made the variety famous and prompted the dramatic growth of its market .
In
1983
DATE
the then - provincial governor
Lee Teng - hui
PERSON
visited the town and praised the quality of its black pearl wax apples , so assuring the renown of the fruit . Subsequently , as president ,
Lee Teng - hui
PERSON
often gave gifts of black pearl wax apples to foreign dignitaries . Green hills The success of black pearl wax apples gave
Linpien
PERSON
a much - needed boost , bringing some of the younger generation back to the area to grow the fruit . The credit for putting wax apples at the heart of the town 's revival and for mounting
the Wax Apple Festival
ORG
belongs with a group of volunteer workers - local people committed to the town 's regeneration . How does a small town like
Linpien
PERSON
come to be home to such a well - organized volunteer effort , and just how did the volunteers set about giving their town a make - over ? The story begins with the town 's riverside park . The road linking the town 's main street with the riverside park , where locals like to stroll and chat at the beginning and end of the day , used to be overgrown and lined with trash . Now , however , thanks to a coordinated effort involving volunteers , residents and landlords , the verges are planted with sunflowers and
lantana
PERSON
, while a former mud patch , donated rent - free by its owner , has been converted into a carp - filled
lotus
ORG
pool .
The revamping of
Linpien
GPE
started
eight or nine years ago
DATE
, when schoolteacher
Tsao Chi - hung
PERSON
- now a
DPP
ORG
deputy in the national legislature - along with fellow members of
the Linpien Residents ' Democracy Association
ORG
launched a program to sweep the streets and keep the riverbank clean .
Wu Wu - ta
PERSON
, a plumber who runs
the Democracy Association
ORG
, says : " People were already doing their bit for the community over
ten years ago
DATE
, but not openly . They swept the streets
before dawn
TIME
because they did n't want people to see them and call them crazy . " It was
only three years ago
DATE
, with the founding of the non-political Linpien Natural History Conservation Association , that residents began to publicly support the project . The flood - prone
Linpien River
LOC
has been dyked and dredged since the
Japanese
NORP
colonial era , but the bare concrete embankments never did much for the scenery . In
1999
DATE
Tsao Chi - hung
PERSON
learned that
the Water Conservancy Bureau
ORG
was planning to renovate the flood defenses , and he proposed a scheme for " greenification " of the riverside area . Objections were raised , however , with some pointing out that the site , if left untended , could easily get overgrown and become a breeding ground for snakes and vermin . The issue was discussed and finally the
Bureau
ORG
agreed to let volunteers maintain the riverside area for
two years
DATE
. If the scheme did n't work out then the
Bureau
ORG
would concrete over the site as originally planned . Following the lead of the conservation association and
the Democracy Association
ORG
, various volunteer groups in the district - including the senior citizens ' club , members of
Tzu Chi Buddhist Foundation
ORG
,
the Presbyterian Church
ORG
, and followers of
the I - Kuan Tao
ORG
sect - signed up to share responsibility for the riverside park , which was divided into
90 - meter
QUANTITY
- long plots for the purpose .
Turf
PERSON
was laid , flower beds appeared , and the embankment soon became a
1.2
CARDINAL
km - long " green Great Wall . " Dreaming by the river " You ca n't go about community work in a standoffish way , and you certainly ca n't operate effectively from behind the scenes - you have to be out there at the front of things . When local people see teachers and doctors coming out to collect trash , they feel encouraged to join in , " says
Chen Chin - chao
PERSON
, a dentist who chairs
the Linpien Natural History Conservation Association
ORG
.
Chen
PERSON
frets about the way the media has focused the spotlight on him alone , when numerous other individuals are also involved , all chipping in what they can . " The biggest achievement is that the flowers have n't been stolen , " says
Tsao Chi - hung
PERSON
. " As more people volunteer to help , disruptive behavior becomes less and less likely . " The riverside area used to be a teenage hangout , known for its drinking and fighting , but since greenification the town 's residents have been coming here to stroll and enjoy the scenery : green hills to the
East
LOC
, the sunset in the
West
LOC
, and the dreamy river alongside the park . " The more that people get involved the greater their sense of accomplishment , " says
Tsao
PERSON
.
" It 's not just about tidying up the environment . We also hope to foster the commercial interests of the community so as to bring practical benefits for people 's lives . " This was the thinking behind
Tsao
PERSON
's gathering together of various groups for
the Wax Apple Festival
ORG
. According to the archives ,
400 years ago
DATE
Linpien
PERSON
was a plains - aborigine settlement called " Fang - suo - she . " In
the middle of the 17th century
DATE
the
Ming
ORG
dynasty loyalist
Zheng Chenggong -LRB-
PERSON
also known as
Koxinga -RRB-
PERSON
brought an influx of settlers to
Taiwan
GPE
from the
Fujian
GPE
and
Guangdong
GPE
regions of
China
GPE
. Some of the Fang - suo - she aborigines stayed and intermarried with
Chinese
NORP
, while others moved away . The oldest recorded use of the name "
Linpien
PERSON
" is on a stele , erected in
1762
DATE
, next to the town 's
Sanshan King Temple
PERSON
. The name , which means " beside the forest , " indicates that the early settlers must have had a tough time clearing land for their crops . Moving to center - stage
In
the past half century
DATE
or more
Linpien
GPE
has concentrated on a series of different forms of produce , from rice , to bananas , to prawn and eel farming , to wax apples -
today
DATE
's main crop . With
Taiwan
GPE
's imminent accession to the
WTO
ORG
, the next big change could be just around the corner . For example , will wax apples lose their market to imported fruit ? And what does
Linpien
PERSON
have to offer that other districts in the county ca n't easily duplicate ?
Yang Hung - jen
PERSON
, a
PhD
WORK_OF_ART
student at
National Taiwan University 's
ORG
Graduate Institute of Sociology
ORG
, came to
Linpien
GPE
a year ago
DATE
to research his thesis on the renewal of the local community . " I had come to what was said to be the worst county in
Taiwan
GPE
for factionalism and corruption , " says
Yang
PERSON
, " a place where the ground had sunk
as much as
CARDINAL
three meters
QUANTITY
due to subsidence . But the contrast between that image and what I actually found here was quite something . " For
Yang
PERSON
, the way that those most active in the renewal effort routinely pass the credit to others is itself impressive .
Linpien
PERSON
rose to prominence on the strength of its celebrated wax apples . But can it now push its way to center - stage as a tourist attraction ?
Says
Chen Chin - chao
PERSON
: " We ca n't yet say how things will turn out for
Linpien
PERSON
. But that 's not to be pessimistic about the town 's prospects ; it 's simply a case of not building castles in the air . " Development of the long - promised
Tapeng Bay Scenic Area
PERSON
is due to begin , and in
2003
DATE
the
2nd
ORDINAL
Southern Freeway
FAC
will open . Will this bring more prosperity to the area ? Construction of a bypass around the town has already boosted property values , but what other benefits may it bring ? A golf course is mooted , but will that mean the loss of birdwatching zones and the mangrove woods ? Can the wax apple orchards be adapted to serve as a setting for family outings ? And can fish farms in the locality be converted to provide housing and accommodation , and a recreation alternative for visitors ? Can this little town make an asset of its scenic location and historical roots to attract more visitors ?
Linpien
PERSON
used to be little more than a brief stop for travelers on their way to the seaside resort of
Kenting
GPE
, but now its residents are wondering if they can turn the town into a destination in its own right .
Linpien Facts
PERSON
and
Figures Linpien Rural Township
PERSON
is in
Pingtung County
GPE
, located on
the Pingtung Plain
LOC
at the mouth of
the Linpien River
LOC
. It is adjacent to the planned
Tapeng Bay Scenic Area
PERSON
, and marks the point where the
2nd
ORDINAL
Southern Freeway
FAC
will terminate . At
15.6 sq
QUANTITY
.
km
PERSON
in area , it is the
second
ORDINAL
smallest of
Pingtung County 's
GPE
33
CARDINAL
townships , and has a population of
around 23,000
CARDINAL
. Wax apples and aquaculture products are the main commodities , with betel nut and coconut also grown .
One - third
CARDINAL
of the township 's land is below sea level . Visitors are recommended to try the local seafood and also not to miss the opportunity for bird - watching among the nearby estuaries , wetlands and mangrove woods . There are also cultural relics including traces of the original plains - aborigine inhabitants .
Linpien
PERSON
can be reached along
Provincial Highway 17
FAC
.
The town has a railway station and can also be accessed by public and private bus services . For more information check out : www.taconet.com.tw/cstudio/ p.
45
CARDINAL
Using special growing techniques , the farmers of
Linpien
PERSON
control the quantity of blossoms on the trees so as to optimize the production of their treasured black pearl wax apples . p.
46
CARDINAL
Aquaculture provides for full nets and full bellies , but it is also the culprit behind
Linpien
PERSON
's severe subsidence problem . The acreage of fish farms has halved in
recent years
DATE
, due to the combination of falling profits and environmental degradation . p.
47
CARDINAL
Subsidence has been caused by the over-extraction of ground - water for aquaculture .
Some of the houses on the Linpien - Chiatung coastal strip have sunk to the degree that their windows are level with the street and their rooves are within easy reach . p.
48
CARDINAL
The gardens of the riverside park , laid out and maintained by local volunteers , cover land that used to be overgrown and strewn with rubbish . The people of the town now come here to stroll and enjoy their free time . p.
48
CARDINAL
The river is blessed with fine scenery , and is good for fishing and birdwatching .
Linpien
PERSON
residents see this as an important asset for attracting tourism . Dongguan Gets Down to Business Taiwan Firms Embrace a
Cantonese
NORP
Boomtown From
Hong Kong 's
GPE
airport , you can go straight to
Dongguan
NORP
on a
Global Express
ORG
bus .
With
27
CARDINAL
departures a day , these buses run by a
Taiwan
GPE
firm out of
Dongguan
GPE
take
Taiwan
GPE
expats to their adopted home , which boasts the largest concentration of
Taiwan
GPE
firms in the
PRC
GPE
. Invoking the
Taiwanese
NORP
business battle cry of " victory to those who strive the hardest , "
20,000 - 30,000
CARDINAL
Taiwan
GPE
expats in
Dongguan
GPE
have in
little more than a decade
DATE
turned a county of banana and lichee plantations into a big city with exports behind only
Shenzhen
GPE
's and
Shanghai
GPE
's . How has
Dongguan
NORP
, this rising economic star , done it ? What mix of sad and happy tales about
Taiwan
GPE
firms does this city have to tell ? It 's
10:00 at night
TIME
, but the city of
Dongguan
GPE
in
Guangdong Province
GPE
is still hopping . Cars clocking
80 kilometers an hour
QUANTITY
zip along roads that reveal hardly a trace of the farming villages that they linked not long ago .
Taiwanese
NORP
business people here run their factories like they drive their cars , in high gear . The factories are lit up at
night
TIME
for overtime shifts . " We do n't take much of a break for
the Chinese New Year 's
EVENT
holidays , " says
Andrew Yeh
PERSON
, chairman of
Dongguan 's Powin Electric
ORG
, which makes cable for the telecoms industry . " By
the morning of the third day
TIME
we start up again with
three
CARDINAL
shifts , just like any other day .
We ca n't keep up with our orders and have got to squeeze
five days
DATE
of work into
every 24 hours
TIME
. " In the busy
Fucheng district
PERSON
, you find the
Taiwanese
NORP
bars , covered from door to rooftop with flashing lights . The lights , like the karaoke singing within them , pulsate until dawn no matter the season . Inside there is a raucous crowd . A
Taiwanese
NORP
businessman down from
Harbin
GPE
boasts that his auto plant up in the northeast sits on a lot as vast as
Taipei City
GPE
and has a green light to sell on the domestic market . In another room a
Taiwanese
NORP
businessman based in
Dongguan
GPE
carouses with a party cadre from
Yunnan
GPE
who is trying to attract investment .
Ju Gao - jeng
PERSON
, a former
ROC
GPE
legislator who now has an academic post in
Beijing
GPE
, is talking to a reporter from
Taipei
GPE
about the
ROC
GPE
presidential elections - a hot topic of conversation on both sides of the
Taiwan
GPE
strait . Amid all the merrymaking , one gets a sense of what
Shanghai
GPE
must have been like in the thirties . In
Dongguan
GPE
at the turn of
the 21st century
DATE
, however , it is the
Taiwanese
NORP
business people who have been playing the leading roles .
High concentration of
Taiwan
GPE
firms Before
the 21st century
DATE
had even arrived , a bright economic star had risen over southern
China
GPE
. Ever since economic reforms accelerated on the mainland when
Deng Xiaoping
PERSON
made a tour of the south in
early 1992
DATE
,
four
CARDINAL
southern
Cantonese
NORP
cities - Zhongshan ,
Dongguan , Shunde
ORG
, and
Nanhai
GPE
- have earned a reputation as the "
four
CARDINAL
tigers " of
Guangdong Province
GPE
.
Dongguan
ORG
leads the pack . "
The year before last
DATE
its total exports were
third
ORDINAL
on the mainland , trailing only
Shenzhen
GPE
's and
Shanghai
GPE
's , " says
Jiang Suwu
PERSON
, a graduate of
Wuhan University 's
ORG
Chinese
NORP
department who came south to work in the planning department of a
Taiwan
GPE
firm in
Dongguan
GPE
. " It had
more than 15,000
CARDINAL
foreign ,
Taiwan
GPE
, and
Hong Kong
GPE
firms , and economic growth for
that year
DATE
reached
26 %
PERCENT
. " In ancient times
Dongguan
ORG
was covered with lichee plantations whose fruit was favored by the imperial consort
Yang Guifei
PERSON
. Just a little more than a decade ago
Dongguan
PERSON
was still a largely agricultural area , its landscape a patchwork of rice paddies and corn fields . It has since been completely made over into a " boundless industrial park " with an area of
2,520 square kilometers
QUANTITY
, a population of
more than 5 million
MONEY
, and
more than 3,000
CARDINAL
Taiwan
GPE
firms .
Chang Han - wen
PERSON
, the chairman of
the Taiwan Business Association of Dongguan
ORG
-LRB- TBAD -RRB- , says that development started in
the late 1980s
DATE
.
Hong Kong
GPE
firms , with their proximity and fluent
Cantonese
LANGUAGE
-LRB- also the local dialect in
Dongguan -RRB-
GPE
, were
first
ORDINAL
. The
Taiwanese
NORP
,
first
ORDINAL
coming about
1989
DATE
, followed . Each arrival seemed to bring many more on its heels .
Taiwan
GPE
firms are now the most important source of foreign investment in
Dongguan
GPE
. Consider the booming electronics industry .
Eighty percent
PERCENT
of
Dongguan
ORG
's
1,800
CARDINAL
computer - related companies are from
Taiwan
GPE
,
Hong Kong
GPE
and
Macau
GPE
. In terms of production value , they account for
at least half
CARDINAL
of this RMB
50 billion
CARDINAL
local industry .
Dongguan
ORG
holds the highest concentration of
Taiwan
GPE
firms anywhere on the mainland . According to TBAD statistics , there are now
30,000
CARDINAL
Taiwanese
NORP
companies on the mainland , -LRB- official
PRC
GPE
statistics , which include service - industry firms , put the number at
45,000 -RRB-
QUANTITY
.
Guangdong Province
GPE
can boast
one - third
CARDINAL
of the total , of which
3,200
CARDINAL
are in
Dongguan
GPE
. Most of these are telecom , cable , plastics , shoes , electronics and electric machinery companies . Why has
Dongguan
NORP
been such a magnet for
Taiwan
GPE
firms ?
Kao Wen - lai
PERSON
points out that
Dongguan
GPE
is strategically located between
Shenzhen
GPE
and
Guangzhou
GPE
-LRB-
Canton
GPE
-RRB-
PERSON
and accessible to the entire
Pearl River
LOC
delta . It is
three hours
TIME
by car to
Hong Kong
GPE
and
one and a half hours
DATE
by boat to
Humen
GPE
. When compared to
Shenzhen
GPE
, moreover , land and labor in
Dongguan
GPE
are cheap . " The local cadres have been smart , providing all manner of land and tax incentives , " says
Chen Ming - chih
PERSON
,
TBAD
ORG
's secretary general .
Two
CARDINAL
keys to the miracle
One afternoon
TIME
in
the days
DATE
before
the Chinese New Year
EVENT
,
Chinese
NORP
businessmen wearing suits arrived at
the People 's Government
ORG
administration building in
Dongguan
GPE
's Qishi district .
After a long wait , they sat down at a table to negotiate with
Qishi
PERSON
's
Communist Party
ORG
secretary , the district chief , and various staff from its foreign economic office .
Qishi
PERSON
's factory rents , electricity charges and land leases were all focuses of discussion . TBAD , as is frequently the case , introduced the
two
CARDINAL
parties . " The factory rent was set at RMB
8.00
CARDINAL
-LRB- about NT$ 32 -RRB- a square meter . The electricity charge was RMB .87 a kilowatt hour , and there were various tax incentives , " explains
Wang Jung - tuo
PERSON
, who notes there is still room for negotiation . All in all , it was a very attractive package . In
1990
DATE
,
Wang
ORG
went to
Malaysia
GPE
thinking about opening a factory there , but he discovered that
Malaysia
GPE
's market was much smaller than the mainland 's and its labor costs twice as high . The style of life was too different there , there was a language divide , and the roads were poor . The mainland was a much better fit for him and his printed circuit boards company . Now , little more than a decade later , its
20 - 30
CARDINAL
workers have grown to
2,000
CARDINAL
.
The company is once again preparing to expand its physical plant . He acknowledges that it was a risky move to come to mainland
China
GPE
, but " if you 're going to die , you might as well die among your own people . " He traces his ancestry to
Guangdong
GPE
and affirms that his decision to set up in mainland
China
GPE
" involves ethnic pride . " Although low land and labor costs are
Dongguan
ORG
's main attractions ,
Taiwan
GPE
firms also choose the locale for the networks of people and producers that have been built up among
Taiwanese
NORP
in
Dongguan
GPE
over
the last ten years
DATE
. These
two
CARDINAL
kinds of networks , says
H.D. Yeh
PERSON
- who served as
TBAD
ORG
's president for
two
CARDINAL
terms - were instrumental in creating the "
Taiwanese
NORP
economic miracle . "
H.D. Yeh
PERSON
points out that competition in
the 21st century
DATE
is all about speed . When customers in
America
GPE
make purchase orders , the whole process , including drawing up the contract and manufacturing the goods , requires
four months
DATE
. But
Taiwanese
NORP
firms can deliver in
15 days
DATE
. " There are
two
CARDINAL
keys , " he says . "
One
CARDINAL
is that all the upstream and downstream factories are here .
You can assemble a computer completely from parts made within
50 kilometers
QUANTITY
. " And the
second
ORDINAL
key is that when you deal with
Taiwanese
NORP
companies , you do n't have to endure a long contract process . Everything starts rolling with a single telephone call .
Taiwanese
NORP
business people are always playing golf , singing karaoke or chewing betel nut together . " Everyone is always asking how everyone else is doing - it 's a way of networking and building up good relations , "
Yeh
PERSON
says .
Andrew Yeh
PERSON
recalls that when the company
first
ORDINAL
set up in
Dongguan
GPE
in
1990
DATE
, " Even screws had to be brought in from
Taiwan
GPE
. " But now the company sources virtually all of the necessary raw materials and parts on the mainland and is reliant for very little on
Taiwan
GPE
. " What does industrial emigration entail ? Usually it means downstream industries coming
first
ORDINAL
, forcing the mid-stream industries to follow , " says
Sylvia Yang
PERSON
, deputy chairperson of TBAD 's women 's division . And in
Dongguan
GPE
downstream
Taiwan
GPE
firms have expanded into the mid-stream , becoming more vertically integrated .
Tahsin Printing
PERSON
only made paper boxes in
Taiwan
GPE
but when they set up a plant in
Dongguan
GPE
they discovered that it was hard to obtain the paper rolls they needed and thus learned how to make them themselves . Now the company makes paper boxes both from rolled paper and from colored flat paper . To each its own domain Many companies have expanded into new business realms in
Dongguan
GPE
. A frequently cited example is
Primax
GPE
,
H.D. Yeh 's
PERSON
electronics firm . The company rented a factory in
Dongguan
GPE
in
1989
DATE
and at
first
ORDINAL
produced labor - intensive power surge protectors . After
three years
DATE
, they began in
1992
DATE
to invest massively on the mainland , establishing computer mouse production lines . Thereafter ,
Primax
PERSON
launched new products every year : cellular phone parts , overhead projectors , paper shredders , scanners . . . Constantly expanding its product lines and production capacity ,
Primax
PERSON
expanded from a single
Dongguan
NORP
plant with
25
CARDINAL
workers in
1989
DATE
to its current
nine
CARDINAL
factories and
4,000
CARDINAL
- plus workforce .
Primax 's performance ,
H.D. Yeh
PERSON
notes , pushed its mother company in
Taiwan
GPE
to go public
seven years ago
DATE
. Primax is
one
CARDINAL
of the few
Taiwan
GPE
electronics companies with a definite "
China
GPE
orientation . " " It does n't cost much to set up a factory in mainland
China
GPE
, and shipping times are stable . These are helpful to the mother company both in terms of controlling costs and filling large orders , " says
Yeh
PERSON
.
Dongguan Hsu Fu Chi Foods
PERSON
, which sells candy , cakes and candied fruit in the mainland domestic market , is another good example . They began production there in
1992
DATE
, formally opening their own plant in
Dongguan
GPE
in
1994
DATE
. The company now has
three
CARDINAL
factories in
Dongguan
GPE
, with a combined area of
120,000 square meters
QUANTITY
, that produce
200 tons
QUANTITY
of candy ,
70 tons
QUANTITY
of
Chinese
NORP
- style cakes , and
180 tons
QUANTITY
of gelatin and pudding a day . " We produce
300 - 500
CARDINAL
container loads of
food a month
DATE
. You can find our cakes in supermarkets all the way from
Guangzhou
GPE
to
Tibet
GPE
. "
Norman Hsu
PERSON
, the company 's vice president , says that after
one
CARDINAL
invests on the mainland , layouts of
Taiwan
GPE
factories seem exceedingly cramped .
" There 's a totally different sense of space . " "
Dongguan
ORG
is by itself
one - thirteenth
CARDINAL
the size of
Taiwan
GPE
, " notes
Chen Ming - chih
PERSON
, secretary general of
the Taiwan Business Association
ORG
. In
Dongguan
GPE
factories are
more than ten
CARDINAL
times the sizes of similar plants in
Taiwan
GPE
.
One
CARDINAL
factory building at the
Talingshan
GPE
furniture plant is
380 meters
QUANTITY
long . Walking the perimeter of a leading electronics plant in
Qishi
GPE
is " like playing
four
CARDINAL
holes of golf . " Like soldiers , workers often have to take different shifts in the cafeteria . The
Pouchen
NORP
shoe plant ,
Dongguan
ORG
's largest , employs
100,000
CARDINAL
. The compound has a nursery , hospital and an operating room . " We always jokingly refer to it as
Fort Pouchen
GPE
, " says
Yeh
PERSON
.
Victory to the strivers Although the
Taiwan
GPE
firms in
Dongguan
GPE
have left home , their success can largely be attributed to an ethos they transplanted from
Taiwan
GPE
- that " victory goes to those who strive the hardest . " " In
Taiwan
GPE
, we used to take the children somewhere fun on
weekends
DATE
and holidays , " says
Chang Mei - liang
PERSON
of TBAD 's women 's division . But since she 's moved the factory , " there has n't been a single meal the whole family has eaten together . " If you want to open a plant on the mainland , you 're going to have to sacrifice family intimacy . " In
Taiwan
GPE
, a boss just has to set the factory 's basic course and at the very most supervise the executives , " explains
Sylvia Yang
PERSON
, the women 's division 's deputy chairperson . " But on the mainland , a boss has to supervise everything : customs , tax payments , workers ' disputes , meal preparation . . . . There 's always the feeling that everyone will start to slack off once the boss leaves . " All the job - related pressures and evenings out with fellow
Taiwanese
NORP
business people or
Communist Party
ORG
cadres result in ill health for many
Taiwan
GPE
business people on the mainland .
One
CARDINAL
of
Chen
PERSON
's tasks as chairperson of TBAD is to handle funeral arrangements for
Taiwanese
NORP
business people there .
" Many of them die suddenly , " he says . The association has been trying to promote healthier lifestyles . " Instead of just going out to karaoke bars and drinking , why not play golf too , " recommends
H.D. Yeh
PERSON
.
Dongguan
PERSON
has
four
CARDINAL
or
five
CARDINAL
golf courses within city limits .
About 1,000
CARDINAL
people play every day , and
80 - 90 %
PERCENT
of them are
Taiwanese
NORP
. The
Taiwanese
NORP
entrepreneurial spirit has blossomed here by processing goods for export through
Hong Kong
GPE
in addition to making the most of connections between local
Taiwan
GPE
firms . With
3,000
CARDINAL
Taiwan
GPE
- owned businesses here , and
10 - 20,000
QUANTITY
Taiwanese
NORP
business people and their dependants coming in and out every day , the Dong - guan area has already developed an economic circle in which
Taiwan
GPE
firms can conduct most of their business among themselves . In the vibrant district of
Houjian
NORP
, there is an area that locals call
Taiwan
GPE
Town . A casual look around reveals shop signs familiar to any
Taiwanese
NORP
:
Taichung Goose
PERSON
,
Ah - shui Shih 's Pig
PERSON
Knuckle Kingdom ,
Yungho Soy Milk
PERSON
,
the Mantu Hair Salon
LAW
. . . . and most of the customers are
Taiwanese
NORP
. Restaurants serve up authentic
Taiwanese
NORP
fare like " pineapples and bitter melon chicken " and " sesame oil chicken . "
In
November 1998
DATE
Global Express
ORG
, a
Taiwan
GPE
firm , even opened up a shuttle bus to
Hong Kong 's
GPE
airport .
Global Express
ORG
serves as a good example of
Taiwanese
NORP
corporate agility . Originally , arrivals from
Taiwan
GPE
en route to
Dongguan
ORG
had to board buses run by a
Hong Kong
GPE
- based and mainland - financed travel agency . " But we felt that the service left something to be desired , and that a lot of time would always be wasted while holders of '
Taiwanese
NORP
Compatriot Visas ' cleared customs , " notes
David Chang
PERSON
,
Global Travel Holding 's
ORG
executive director .
Two years ago
DATE
, this
Taiwanese
NORP
travel agency began to talk with the mainland customs and border inspection agencies and negotiated a deal to get the route . " We tell
Taiwanese
NORP
business people that riding our buses is safe , the service is good , and that it makes the trip through customs easy . " In enemy territory As soon as you 're through customs at
Hong Kong
GPE
, you see them : women draped with beauty pageant - like sashes with the
Chinese
NORP
characters for " Global Travel " emblazoned across them . Pushing small luggage carts , they lead customers to the buses .
They have become a " must - see " tourist sight for
Taiwanese
NORP
visitors to
Dongguan
GPE
. " At
first
ORDINAL
we thought of talking with
Hong Kong
GPE
airport about renting a counter , " explains
Chang
PERSON
. " But for
just one - fourth
CARDINAL
of a
six square - meter
QUANTITY
booth , the rent comes to HK$
200,000
MONEY
. " So the company thought that instead of spending that much money on a booth it made more sense to lower operating costs and pass these along in the form of lower fares for its customers . They never expected that the luggage carts would in fact make it much easier for customers to find them in sprawling
Hong Kong
GPE
airport and would become an easily recognizable company trademark . " Now mainland
Chinese
NORP
travel agencies have started copying the way we use the carts , " says
Chang
PERSON
, laughing . Since Global buses started plying this route in
November 1988
DATE
,
daily
DATE
bus departures have risen from
4
CARDINAL
to
27
CARDINAL
, with over
20,000
CARDINAL
riders a month . Global plans to introduce new services , including car rentals and plane ticket reservations and confirmations .
Dongguan
PERSON
appears to have a bright future .
" The
Taiwan
GPE
firms here now are powerful enough to get
two
CARDINAL
or
three
CARDINAL
members of
the Legislative Yuan
ORG
to represent their interests , " holds
one
CARDINAL
senior reporter . Although TBAD 's
Yeh
PERSON
believes that investment prospects on the mainland are good , he does acknowledge the precariousness of their position in hostile territory .
Taiwan
GPE
business interests can not put down their guard . Because of
Taiwan
GPE
's experience with rapid modernization , many
CCP
ORG
cadres have sought employment with
Taiwanese
NORP
firms , hoping to learn from the masters . At the
first
ORDINAL
opportunity , however , they leave to set up shop for themselves . " The student then challenges the master , " explains
Sylvia Yang
PERSON
, detailing how these mainland upstarts go on to compete with the very
Taiwan
GPE
firms that taught them all they know . This scenario should be familiar to
Taiwanese
NORP
. " It happens in
Taiwan
GPE
too . " Apart from keeping up their guard , it is even more important that
Taiwan
GPE
firms raise their productivity and technological level . " Many manufacturers , even those in mainland
China
GPE
, will not survive , " says
Yeh
PERSON
.
Taiwan
GPE
firms find it difficult to adjust to the instability of the mainland 's investment environment , as well as the laws there that seemingly change
overnight
TIME
.
The year before last
DATE
the mainland announced a new tax system , under which raw materials imported by foreign firms would be taxed at a rate of
17 %
PERCENT
, with
9 %
PERCENT
being returned to the manufacturer when finished goods were exported . " When I went to
Beijing
GPE
to negotiate , " recalls
Yeh
PERSON
, " I asked cadres in the foreign trade office to consider the impact of the tax on the electronics industry . Profit margins are at best
3 - 5 %
PERCENT
. How can manufacturers afford to pay a
17 %
PERCENT
import tax ? " In
June of last year
DATE
the
PRC
GPE
authorities announced
the " Document #
LAW
35
MONEY
" rules . These stipulated that companies would be given grades according to the quantity of their exports and their records of breaking customs regulations . Those meriting only a B would have to offer a deposit of
40 - 50 %
PERCENT
against the value of their raw material imports . This terrified
Taiwan
GPE
firms in
Dongguan
GPE
. According to
TBAD
ORG
's statistics ,
75 %
PERCENT
of the
Taiwanese
NORP
firms were given
Bs
PERSON
.
The announcement caused quite a stir , but its effect on
Taiwanese
NORP
investment is as yet unclear . In
August of last year
DATE
, as the mainland customs authorities took aggressive moves against smuggling ,
12
CARDINAL
Taiwan
GPE
business people in
Dongguan
GPE
were detained . The charges ran the gamut from not filling out proper forms to purchasing phony export contracts and trying to pass them off to customs .
Seven
CARDINAL
business people were arrested and charged with smuggling and are still in jail . " I 'm constantly thinking about them . I 'm meditating and have gone vegetarian , but I 'm still not at peace , "
Yeh
PERSON
says . On the mainland , the highest penalty for smuggling is death . "
Last year
DATE
the mainland sent
nine
CARDINAL
customs officers to the firing squad , " notes
Yeh
PERSON
. The fate of these
Taiwanese
NORP
businessmen will depend entirely on the mainland 's political climate .
Whether its arrival was by accident or design , a new age for
Taiwanese
NORP
firms in
Dongguan
GPE
is here . It is a far cry from
the days
DATE
when
Taiwan
GPE
firms enjoyed tremendous advantages . From the various revisions to trade law adopted by the
PRC
GPE
last year
DATE
,
Chang Han - wen
PERSON
extrapolates that the
PRC
GPE
both wants to protect its uncompetitive state firms and turn from low - tech processing to high - tech production . " This is because state enterprises pressure the government with appeals about their right to survival , "
Yeh
PERSON
says . When foreign firms in the mainland are confronted with threats to their safety and property , "
Hong Kong
GPE
can count on the cooperation of the government ,
US
GPE
and
Japanese
NORP
businesses can turn to their ambassadors , but what can
Taiwan
GPE
firms do ? " asks
Yeh
PERSON
. In
Dongguan
GPE
they can help each other . Currently ,
more than 80 %
PERCENT
of the
3,000
CARDINAL
Taiwanese
NORP
firms in
Dongguan
GPE
have joined TBAD . TBAD has
29
CARDINAL
local branches in
Dongguan
GPE
and is , moreover , the only
Taiwan
GPE
business association in mainland
China
GPE
with a women 's division . Major companies listed on the TAIEX , including
Lite - on Electronics
ORG
and
Delta Electronics
ORG
, are members of TBAD . It is the largest and strongest of all
Taiwan
GPE
business groups on the mainland both in terms of organization and operations .
Many
Taiwanese
NORP
believe that at a time of cross-strait tension ,
Taiwan
GPE
firms have made their own decisions to invest in the mainland and therefore should bear the risk themselves too . And by investing their money , technology and so forth on the mainland , are they not to some degree abandoning
Taiwan
GPE
? TBAD takes issue with this view .
H.D. Yeh
PERSON
points out that in
1998
DATE
Taiwan
GPE
had an overall trade surplus of
US$ 5.9 billion
MONEY
, and a surplus of
US$ 12.76 billion
MONEY
with mainland
China
GPE
. If not for its trade with the
PRC
GPE
, therefore ,
Taiwan
GPE
would have had a trade deficit . " We make our money here , but we pay taxes in
Taiwan
GPE
, and most of our families and children do most of their consumer spending in
Taiwan
GPE
, " insists
TBAD chairperson
PERSON
Chang Mei - liang
PERSON
.
Chang
PERSON
notes that after the major earthquake in
Taiwan
GPE
on
September 21
DATE
,
Taiwan
GPE
business associations throughout mainland
China
GPE
contributed
NT$ 60 million
MONEY
. TBAD contributed
NT$ 30 million
MONEY
all by itself . Hence , he argues that it 's very unfair to say that
Taiwanese
NORP
businesses in the mainland are n't contributing to
Taiwan
GPE
.
The question is , how should the
ROC
GPE
government view
Taiwan
GPE
firms in the mainland ? And for that matter how is the
PRC
GPE
government looking at the
Taiwanese
NORP
in
Dongguan
GPE
? TBAD 's spiritual leader
H.D.
PERSON
Yeh often goes to
Beijing
GPE
to represent
Taiwan
GPE
firms in negotiations with the government . Once , in the presence of many
Communist Party
ORG
cadres , a high - ranking official of
the State Council 's
ORG
Taiwan Affairs Office
ORG
asked him this question : " You 've gathered so many
Taiwan
GPE
firms in
Dongguan
GPE
and stirred up such enthusiasm among them - but for what purpose ? " It threw him for a loop .
Yeh
PERSON
is still trying to figure out what the mainland authorities think of TBAD . For
Taiwan
GPE
firms in
Dongguan
GPE
, investing in mainland
China
GPE
is a road of no return . " In
recent years
DATE
many
Taiwan
GPE
business people have also tried to invest in
Vietnam
GPE
, only later to close their factories there , " says
Chang Han - wen
PERSON
.
Mainland China
ORG
shares the same language as
Taiwan
GPE
and it offers attractive investment conditions . It would be surprising if it did n't attract
Taiwan
GPE
firms that are eager to set up offshore .
Amid the cross-strait political standoff , one can expect that
Taiwan
GPE
firms in
Dongguan
GPE
will continue to live out this exciting tale of gain and loss . -LRB-
Jackie Cheng
PERSON
/ photos by
Diago Chiu
PERSON
/ tr. by
Jonathan Barnard
PERSON
-RRB- Source :
Taiwan Business Association
ORG
of Dongguan Graphic by
Tsai Chih - pen
PERSON
And in following up on the situation in
Lebanon
GPE
, we are joined by our correspondent there ,
Mohammed Gharib
PERSON
.
Mohammed
PERSON
, to begin with , uh , and after the latest statements by
Fouad Siniora
PERSON
and also the address given by
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
PERSON
to the opposition and to all the
Lebanese
NORP
, has the political debate between the authorities and the opposition entered a phase of dangerous disclosures in your opinion ? Well , yeah , this is apparently the case yeah , Laure . But , yeah , the doors of dialogue , in all cases so far as the
two
CARDINAL
sides are saying , remain open . Umm .
Yeah , but the opposition in return , I mean , yeah , says that any dialogue uh , uh , at least if , yeah , yeah , it takes place between the
two
CARDINAL
sides , will only be alongside the popular opinion . That is , the opposition so far is saying that the street is the main path to , yeah , yeah , changing the government . And here , I have to point out that there is a fallacy , it seems that the media people -- the opposition is so far at the stage of demanding a change in the government and not the toppling of the government , which means that it is demanding a national unity government , yeah , yeah , or a change in the government through , yeah , yeah , I mean , yeah , keeping Prime Minister
Siniora
PERSON
as Prime Minister and some of the current ministers , provided that , I mean , an agreement is reached to add some ministers to this current government . Yes . Well ,
Mohammed
PERSON
, uh , there is little hope , uh , on the issue of dialogue . Yes , okay , Sir the report called for dialog with
Syria
GPE
and
Iran
GPE
, but
Bush
PERSON
doubted neighboring countries ' taking part in the talks at an international conference to support
Iraq
GPE
. Does n't this contradict the administration 's approach to dealing with the
Baker
PERSON
-
Hamilton
PERSON
report ? Yes ,
first
ORDINAL
let me explain .
There is a call for an international conference and there is a call for a regional conference . the international conference , it appears that the
Bush
PERSON
administration is not encouraged and is not enthusiastic about it .
Abdul Aziz Al - Hakim
PERSON
expressed this when he was in
Washington
GPE
this position as did
Iraqi
NORP
President
Talabani
PERSON
. But what is striking is that there is a possibility uh for a call for a regional conference . In my opinion , this , uh , is being encouraged by
Washington
GPE
and perhaps through this conference , there will be a way in for , uh ,
the United States of America
GPE
to talk to
Syria
GPE
and
Iran
GPE
.
Syria
GPE
and
Iran
GPE
will of course be involved in this regional conference should it be held and I do n't think it would be wise and it would not be objective not to invite them to a conference dealing with
Iraq
GPE
's regional neighbors . The question is about the
American
NORP
position . Will
Washington
GPE
take this conference as a way of initiating a dialog with
Syria
GPE
and
Iran
GPE
or will it content itself with
Syria
GPE
and
Iran
GPE
's participation being simply the outer limits or upper ceiling for talks with
Syria
GPE
and
Iran
GPE
at this stage ? Yes , from
Washington
GPE
, Mr.
Subhi Ghandour
PERSON
, director of the
Arab
NORP
Dialog Center , thank you very much .
Ah undoubtedly ah a very hasty project , especially that the
Hebrew
LANGUAGE
State tried to implement this project alone , from
the Mediterranean Sea
LOC
to
the Red Sea
LOC
. And it was proved to them with certainty that the project is ineffective economically , as it will cost
one and a
DATE
half billion dollars . So they tried using their well - known means to transfer this project to another agency to implement it and finance it , while they reap the fruits from it . Aha , aha . They have many goals ah for such a project , the most important of which is to build
one hundred
CARDINAL
new settlements they have been planning to establish in the
Negev
LOC
. Ah . But now the fear is that they plan to build them across the extension of the new canal line from
the Red Sea
LOC
to
the Dead Sea
LOC
under various headers , including the headers ah of development and architecture and ah establishing new settlements . And since the subject has become open in
Jordan
GPE
for everyone , there is no guarantee that the new construction projects that would be established on this line might reach the hands of the
Zionists
NORP
. Aha . And they might repeat the story as they started it in
Palestine
GPE
by building settlements , and the eastern mountains will become occupied to
the Dead Sea
LOC
and
Araba Valley
GPE
, occupied by the
Zionists
NORP
.
Aha , aha . This project is extremely dangerous , except -- would n't it also contribute to completely connect the
Palestinian
NORP
and
Jordanian
NORP
economy to the
Israeli
NORP
I mean , what generates from it , may be , of demographic , economic and development projects . Yes , more than this , I say ah this project is one of the
American
NORP
-
Israeli
NORP
projects in the region which aim in the end at incorporating ah
Israel
GPE
in the
Jordanian
NORP
society and in the
Arab
NORP
society ah and marketing it in this way . Huge tremendous joint projects ah ah that guarantee the security and stability of the region as it is said , but they will bring us very big losses . Aha -- This project has engineering damages , environmental damages , military damages and political damages on
Jordanian
NORP
society . May , you made reference at the beginning of this meeting to the butcher child or the
Turbini
GPE
in
Egypt
GPE
. What are the details ?
Well , he is nicknamed , uh , uh , like this ,
Turbini
GPE
, and he is the leader of a murderous gang in
Egypt
GPE
, and he has chosen the railroad tracks as the stage for his crimes . In any case , we selected from the
Qatari
NORP
newspaper
Al - Watan
ORG
, uh ,
Amal
PERSON
, an article entitled
The Fourth Class
FAC
in
Egypt
GPE
:
the Street Children
FAC
by
Habashi Rushdi
PERSON
, and he discusses , uh , the causes of the appearance of such gangs and such children , uh , in
Egypt
GPE
. The writer , uh , says that this class , the Fourth Class , is not from families like the
three
CARDINAL
traditional classes , and their armies , who live in the open air also live in a wilderness of ethical values , so there is no discipline , and no upbringing . And what is striking in this matter is that it is an extension of the class of poor people who live in chaotic neighborhoods that are never reached by the helping hand of the government . And only as a reminder ,
May
DATE
, the streets of
Egyptian
NORP
cities encompass
two million
CARDINAL
children who are runaways from their families , according to the latest statistics ; a very large number ,
May
DATE
. yes , you know , he also says , uh , the author , that the
Egyptian
NORP
street , uh , abandons those with apathy to unknowingly create the most hardened criminals , whose crimes will soon make the headlines of the events pages of the newspapers . He goes on , By putting the underlying origin of the , uh , street children class in
Egypt
GPE
under the microscope , you will find that
one
CARDINAL
of the most dangerous reasons behind their growth is the chaotic migration from the countryside to the cities , and to a certain extent , the ruralization of the cities and the urbanization of the countryside . And -- Yes , the unfortunate thing too in all of this ,
May
DATE
, is that
millions
CARDINAL
among the wealthy are lost in deep sleep while there are
millions
CARDINAL
of children out in the streets . Uh , yes , well , and uh , also here the author says : What is required is not for the police to put these children in youth shelters for them to escape and go back to the streets , because the children have searched by themselves for freedom they did not have in their families , so they resorted to the streets , so do not save their lives by using the police , but through social fathers and mothers who will return them to their families and provide their families with security and safety and correct the life of every child among them .
-- basically , it was unanimously agreed upon by the various relevant parties . To express its determination , the
Chinese
NORP
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PERSON
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Focus Today
ORG
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Wang Shilin
PERSON
. Good-bye , dear viewers .
Hello , dear viewers . Welcome to
Focus Today
ORG
.
Today
DATE
, let 's turn our attention to a road cave - in accident that happened in
Beijing
GPE
over the holiday . Before dawn on
January 3
DATE
, a sewage pipe leakage accident occurred at the main and side roads of
Jingguang Bridge
PERSON
, East Third Ring Road ,
Beijing Municipality
GPE
, resulting in the road caving in . Relevant departments from
Beijing Municipality
GPE
promptly activated emergency contingency plans . The traffic administration department carried out traffic supervision near the accident scene . Well , how did the emergency response mechanisms activated by governmental departments operate effectively during the holiday ? After the holiday , what will be done to handle citizens ' peak commute ? In addition , what measures did relevant departments take to resolve issues such as waste discharge , heating , and communication , in order to ensure that the lives of citizens were not affected ? Well , we have invited
two
CARDINAL
honorable guests to the studio
today
DATE
to follow this topic with us .
One
CARDINAL
of the
two
CARDINAL
honorable guests in the studio is Professor
Zhou Hanhua
PERSON
from
the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
ORG
. Hello . Next is
Yang Yang
PERSON
, a host of
Beijing Traffic Radio Station
ORG
. Hello . Welcome both of you to the studio to participate in our program . Well , I especially want to know , ha , how the
two
CARDINAL
of you found out the news on
the day
DATE
of the accident ? Ah , , about 11:00 m.
yesterday
DATE
, ah , I happened to find out through an SMS when I was outside . Uh-huh . Uh-huh . It happened that I was going to have lunch with a friend , um , at
noon
TIME
.
And then , the friend
first
ORDINAL
sent me an SMS , Uh-huh . saying he would come pick me up to go together . After that , I received an SMS from
1860
DATE
. Uh-huh , it was through an SMS . And you ,
Yang Yang
PERSON
? A friend happened to call me . You were not at work
that day
DATE
? No . The station called me at
noon
TIME
and said something happened at
Jingguang Bridge
FAC
and that I had to go to the station immediately to research the upcoming program . Uh-huh , that means , er , you found out the accident through an information source at the station . Right , right , right .
Uh-huh . Well , like Professor
Zhou
PERSON
, I also received this news , ha , through a mobile phone SMS . At that time , , it can be said that this
SMS
ORG
was among the many , ha , SMS containing
New Year
EVENT
wishes , like Happy
New Year
EVENT
, received after the start of
the New Year
EVENT
. Uh-huh . Ah , actually I felt a lot of warmth when I received that SMS . Although we live in the west instead of the east and it did not affect us much , I think it is very useful , ah , to inform people of this kind of news . Yes , exceptionally . Yes , exceptionally . Well , what in fact was the content of that SMS ?
Let 's take a look via this footage , ha . I remember the
SMS
ORG
was written like this at that time , saying that , ah , there was a sewage pipe leakage accident on the side road at the southeast corner of
Jingguang Bridge
PERSON
at East Third Ring Road , and , well , traffic supervision was implemented near
Chaoyang Road
FAC
,
Jingguang Bridge
PERSON
, and
East Third Ring Road
LOC
, and requesting cars to make a detour . Some car owners said that it was very good that the
SMS
ORG
was sent . Furthermore , there was
one
CARDINAL
last sentence in that SMS thanking citizens for their cooperation and support . Ah , after the
SMS
ORG
was sent , , I felt it seems to be the
first
ORDINAL
time that
Beijing Municipality
GPE
, ah , used an SMS to give notification at the time of a public emergency . I do n't know , all of us are living in
Beijing
GPE
, is this the
first
ORDINAL
time , Professor
Zhou
PERSON
? Yes , in terms of an official notification , this should be the
first
ORDINAL
time one was sent officially through
1860
DATE
. Uh-huh . Of course , in private life , people have used SMS countless times to spread news . Yes .
Other places in the country must have used this too . Uh-huh , uh-huh . Must have used this too . Actually , I remember receiving an SMS like this one
last year
DATE
before it snowed , since snowfall would affect road conditions in
Beijing
GPE
to a rather large extent . Uh-huh . However , it did not give people such a special feeling as it did this time . Uh-huh . Ah , when an SMS is sent to inform citizens of such an incident , can it be considered a work method or expression of government information transparency ? Yes , this is indeed through the very successful response to this emergency , ah , by
Beijing Municipality
GPE
, Uh-huh . an extremely good point that is worth pondering deeply , worthy innovation . Uh-huh .
For instance , previously our news announcements were made through some conventional methods , but this time it was made in the form of a mobile phone SMS . In fact , this is a method highly emphasized in various countries ' development of e-government . We usually make it sound like e-government is something unattainable . Yes , when we talked about e-government in the past , it seemed to be only done through the Internet . Right . It seemed that computers , ah , and the Internet , ah , were an expression of e-government , to let people find out information . Well , presently in fact , e-governments in various countries apply this so - called last multiple - exposure method , such as call centers , such as electronic IDs , and such as , these electronic signatures . These are quite sophisticated forms . Uh-huh .
In particular , more terminals , such as , this cable television , ah , , this digital television , ah , and mobile phone SMS , are applied in e-government . Hence , I think this is , a test of e-government because , as I remember , during SARS in
2003
DATE
, people at that time criticized e-government during the spread of SARS , ah . Uh-huh . They said that e-government was very good but was not put into use . Well , this time I think that a short SMS like this can fully create interaction between the government and the public through this e-government form . Uh-huh . Yes . We drive often in
Beijing
GPE
, ha ,
Yang Yang
PERSON
. If people were not informed of such a traffic accident through SMS on
that day
DATE
and they continued to head there , what do you think would happen if people did not know what was going on and the jam did not clear ? Yes .
Ah , well , I think it would have been real paralysis . This is the most appropriate word to use . Furthermore , I think that when SMS was used to announce the news , it should be said to have fit the conditions in our
China
GPE
very well . Why is that so ? This is because , it should be said that
China
GPE
is the country with the highest SMS usage . There are probably not as many chances to use SMS in foreign countries compared with domestically , in
China
GPE
, ah . So , it can be said that penetration was quite high this time , by using the most familiar method , most used by everyone , as well as the most prompt and most convenient method , for the announcement . Yes , I noticed that many friends , around me received it . It seems that almost everyone received this SMS . Yes .
Yes . The effect was extremely good , ha . So , how exactly did citizens react ? Let 's take a look at the reactions of citizens . -- an SMS . I saw it was that
Jingguang Bridge
PERSON
. Hey , I say , this is quite good , quite good . Have you received information like this before ? No , no .
This was the
first
ORDINAL
time . The
first
ORDINAL
time ? Yes , yes . Well , what do you think of the speed at which the government responded this time ? Quite fast . Really quite fast , ah . So , I did not drive
today
DATE
. I set out a bit earlier and took the subway here . Do you think that the response of the government was fast this time ? Ah , the response was quite fast .
In addition , various media announcements were also quite prompt . Colleagues and friends also informed one another by phone calls and SMS . I think this plan was quite speedy . It seems that through this kind of SMS , citizens responded very well and the effect was excellent , ha . Well , apart from the , ah , point on information disclosure brought out by this accident , the fact is that the activation of emergency contingency plans by the , ah , government has also left people with a very deep impression . Let 's find out the situation at that time through some footage . Well , we know that after the road cave - in accident , ah , ah , traffic police and emergency rescue personnel rushed to the scene , ah , to direct traffic and carry out emergency repair of sewage pipes . Well , lots of barricade tape has been strung up on the side road in the north - south direction of the accident scene beneath
the Jingguang Bridge
FAC
at East Third Ring Road . All personnel responsible for the emergency repair of underground sewage pipes , ah , have arrived at their designated locations . See , through this footage , we see , ah , this --
Uh-huh . Okay , ah , , this emergency repair worker said that he was there at
4 o'clock
TIME
. That means that they arrived at the scene right after the pre-dawn accident occurred . Well , it can be said that
the traffic administration department
ORG
was activated very quickly after receiving the news . Well , ah ,
Yang Yang
PERSON
, you work at
Traffic Radio Station
ORG
, ha , well , and we know that you all gave an extensive live broadcast
this morning
TIME
. A special program . Yes , a special program on this traffic . So , let 's
first
ORDINAL
turn our attention to the impact on traffic after the accident . Judging from the traffic control measures taken after the accident , as well as the eventual impact caused , what do you think are the effects ?
Actually , concerning this , I think both of you are very familiar with the traffic in
Beijing
GPE
. Previously we had a statistic , especially for the ring roads in
Beijing
GPE
. That is , if we have an ordinary fender bender or tailgate accident on a bridge such as
the Jingguang Bridge
FAC
of the Third Ring Road , it might cause the entire Third Ring Road to have bumper - to - bumper traffic jams during
these morning
TIME
and
evening
TIME
peak periods . Uh-huh . It might even impact traffic on the Second Ring Road and Fourth Ring Road . Well , ah , if there is an accident , from the time it occurs until the time all traffic is cleared , it probably takes
about half an hour to an hour
TIME
during peak periods . Well , we could not imagine imposing temporary traffic restriction measures on a long section of road stretching from
Jingguang Bridge
PERSON
to
Changhong Bridge
GPE
from the south all the way to
Guomao Bridge
ORG
, blocking the main and side roads . Well , the situation would be unthinkable during this peak period that is
the first day
DATE
of work for everyone . Hence , at that time , before
6:30
TIME
a .m .
today
DATE
, before our live broadcast , we moved the broadcast forward , and before the live broadcast we were very worried . However , actually after
the entire day
DATE
today
DATE
, I came here right after ending the live broadcast
this evening
TIME
to continue with the live broadcast here , in fact , in
Beijing
GPE
today
DATE
people indeed experienced an extremely high volume of traffic flow on the roads surrounding the section under traffic control , and indeed there was a very big traffic jam .
Uh-huh . However , the affected area was not as large as expected . Moreover , some people made detours once they received the news . Right . Psychologically , people felt quite relieved . Because I know this situation . Right , like those whom we interviewed just now . It was easy to handle once everyone understood . Yes , ah , , a citizen , he said , I set out
today
DATE
before the incident , and I did not drive after I was informed . That person did not even drive .
Right . Actually , in this aspect , I think that citizens were really quite cooperative . For instance ,
this evening
TIME
, we , received an SMS . A friend said , I work on the
12th
ORDINAL
floor of
the China World Trade Center
ORG
at
the Guomao Bridge
FAC
, ah . We were discussing that we could go home in fewer cars since everyone was on the same route . Later on , we suggested to him and said , you , ah , might as well take the subway , because you can directly reach the subway once you get down from
the China World Trade Center
ORG
. Right . Hey , he said this was quite a good idea . Actually , I think everyone was quite cooperative and also quite supportive in this aspect .
Yes , many , viewers not in
Beijing
GPE
may not be quite familiar , ah , with this road section we just mentioned , where , ah , the accident occurred . Ah , we can take a look later through an animation . This road represents a main road on
East Third Ring Road
LOC
, with problems on both the main and side roads . Furthermore ,
Chaoyang Road
PERSON
is an intersection . Uh-huh . Whether it is
Chaoyang Road
PERSON
in the east - west direction or the main and side roads of East Third Ring Road in the south - north direction , as we can see from this diagram , it can be said that the area at the main and side roads of East Third Ring Road normally has quite heavy traffic , especially during commuting times . Well ,
Chaoyang Road
PERSON
is a very important artery in the east - west direction . Yes . When people living in the west want to cross over from the city , they have to go via this road . Hence , if a traffic accident occurs at this place , we can indeed imagine , ha , how widespread , ah , the extent of the impact will be , such as the number of cars caught in traffic jams .
Yes , actually I think everyone can see that from the buses that cross
Jingguang Bridge
PERSON
. Yes . As buses that cross the Third Ring Road are currently , right now affected by the Jingguang Bridge accident , ah , the latest results
this morning
TIME
show that
32
CARDINAL
bus routes throughout the neighborhood have had to be rerouted . Uh-huh . Well , I think that perhaps many friends in other places are wondering how
one
CARDINAL
place is able to accommodate
32
CARDINAL
commuter routes . If the accident did not happen , perhaps everyone would not know that this place could normally have so many -- It is really like this , just look at the bus signs . Right . Have not seen so many buses . Right .
Its effect on people has been extremely extensive . Yes . Uh-huh . Well , what measures did the traffic control department eventually take to direct traffic ? Our correspondent specially interviewed Director
Meng Xianlong
PERSON
, Mr.
Meng Xianlong
PERSON
, of
the Command Center of the Beijing Municipal Traffic Administration
ORG
. Let 's hear what Director
Meng
PERSON
said . Um , our traffic control department immediately activated the traffic emergency response plan . In the roads close to where the problem emerged , we
first
ORDINAL
set up traffic diversion points for traffic control at the southern and northern ends . In this way , all vehicles going along
East Third Ring Road
LOC
had to make a detour to go on roads on the east and west sides .
East Third Ring Road is a traffic artery in the east of
Beijing
GPE
that links the north and the south . In order to ensure smooth traffic in the eastern district , we formulated a set of traffic diversion control plans . We set up traffic diversion points at
68
CARDINAL
locations along
East Second Ring Road
LOC
, East Fourth Ring Road ,
West Dawang Road
GPE
, ah , and related roads to the east and west , and deployed
more than 210
CARDINAL
additional police officers to divert and direct traffic . It can be said that measures were very promptly taken . Ah ,
today
DATE
is the
first
ORDINAL
workday after
the New Year
EVENT
holiday . Well , what exactly was the situation
this morning
TIME
? We specially sent a reporter to the scene
this morning
TIME
to shoot some footage . Let 's take a look at the situation
this morning
TIME
through this footage . Well , from this footage , we can see that , ha , at East Third Ring Road , ah , near
Guanghua Bridge
FAC
, the roads here that lead to the vicinity of
Jingguang Bridge
PERSON
have come under control and , well , various kinds of signs have also been placed at very conspicuous locations . Although the outdoor temperature in
Beijing
GPE
has fallen to
minus 3 degrees
QUANTITY
, the traffic police deployed additional manpower on the roads to direct traffic , ah , and guide drivers in making detours .
Well , since direction of traffic was carried out on the periphery , the number of vehicles at the section of the accident was significantly less than usual , with road traffic very orderly . Ah , it can be said , ah ,
Yang Yang
PERSON
, citizens , regardless of whether they took the bus or drove , their mentality , in terms of being understanding or calm , ah , was a very important factor in having orderly traffic at the scene . Uh-huh . Right , right . , through your listeners , what kind of feedback did you find out from them ? Actually ,
this morning
TIME
, some listeners , ah , also happened to tell us about it via mobile phone SMS . Since we know that
Jingguang Bridge
PERSON
is located in the CBD district , well there are many office buildings , ah , a lot of them , as well as quite a lot of friends who get up
early in the morning
TIME
to go to work . Therefore , they sent SMS saying , hey , it is unusual , ah , for me to be walking to the bus station
today
DATE
or going to take the bus . Well , it is unusual for me to enjoy
a very pleasant morning
TIME
.
We then reminded everyone to wear extra clothing . This shows that when people encounter such kind of emergency , they have started to be able to face it with a very calm and pleasant state of mind . I think that this mentality in facing emergencies , in
one
CARDINAL
respect shows a great change of mentality that
Beijing
GPE
citizens now have after enduring several tests in the past , and a kind of calmness and maturity after having experienced frustrations . On the other hand , I think it can also fully show the level of people 's satisfaction with emergency mechanisms of the operational departments of the government in handling this incident . That is , they think that the government has tried its best . Well , in this respect , we citizens should also contribute our efforts . Uh-huh . As such , in this regard , I think people 's mentality can become very calm . Uh-huh .
Well , Professor
Zhou
PERSON
, from this perspective , is this one highly positive effect achieved after information was disclosed ? Yes . In terms of citizens ' mentality . Yes , in fact it can be seen from this particular case . That is , when the government was handling this kind of public emergency , well , it went from a traditionally unilateral administrative management method , well , a method in which information was quite delayed , to disclosure and transparency of information , and very fast as well . We know that in the past , disclosure of information had to be reported to higher authorities , level by level , until the highest authorities had given approval , before information could be disclosed .
Time
ORG
was lost . Well , yes ,
the State Council
ORG
has , er , put forth a regulation concerning the establishment of public early warning mechanisms . That is , related information that can be publicized will be publicized
first
ORDINAL
, in order to guide people in what to do . In this way , related interaction between the government and the people can be formed .
That is , in modern public management , ah , this is a very good case , that is , of shifting from a kind of unilateral administrative management to public management and to positive interaction between the government and the people . I think in fact , we can sum up many beneficial experiences from this case and actually extend them to other areas . Yes , this is when we look at this case from the perspective of traffic . Traffic was the
first
ORDINAL
thing to be impacted when this , cave - in accident occurred . However , this accident actually involved many underground pipes , such as sewage pipes , ah , or water , ah , and gas , ah , pipes , that affect the lives of citizens in many other aspects . Yes .
Yang Yang
PERSON
, do you know how many pipes there are underground ? Right now , there should be
seven
CARDINAL
main types of pipes buried underground . They include those like you just mentioned , as well as pipes like those for heating and communication , among others .
Truly , these pipes are closely linked to the lives of citizens . Closely linked . Yes , therefore besides our attention to the traffic issue just now , people are also very concerned , ah , with the situation after the accident , with other aspects affecting citizens ' lives . Let 's take a look again at this footage of the situation of dealing with the current scene . Ah , according to our understanding of the situation ,
the Beijing Municipal Construction Commission
ORG
, ah ,
the Communication Commission
ORG
, ah , and telecommunication , traffic , and other departments have assigned personnel to participate in emergency repair work . Relevant departments said that they will adopt a full range of measures to minimize the level of impact on people 's daily lives and work , in order to ensure stable order in society during the recovery period . Well , looking at the government 's response to this cave - in accident , ah , we should say it was very prompt with traffic management and emergency repair , ah , because it involved various aspects of life . Well , ah , Professor
Zhou
PERSON
, as this incident involved many departments after it took place , how do you think the various departments should coordinate between themselves ? Yes .
This is also -- It is not the case that this problem will be totally solved when
one
CARDINAL
department shows up . Yes , I think as we build this kind , er , of public , this kind of emergency mechanism for public incidents , ah , has been the , most difficult to resolve , an actual problem that has been the most difficult to resolve among administrative management reforms in various countries . How many groups of people will be sent ? Many groups . Yes , this is because social management requires division of labor in society . It is necessarily a labor division trend that involves many departments , and in addition , a kind of modern management public administration model which is diversified . Uh-huh . How can cooperation be formed between departments in this kind of situation ? Well , sometimes under normal circumstances , sometimes , we often feel that it is very difficult for departments to cooperate with one another .
For instance , there are too many law enforcement departments and , ah , too many administrative departments , and very often in the end , they are unable to coordinate . However , this time , through the execution of emergency contingency plans by
Beijing Municipality
GPE
this time , ah , it should be said that the response speed of the different departments of
Beijing Municipality
GPE
, as well as the integrated emergency mechanisms , played a great role . Hence , I think this was also a kind of , er , trial of interdepartmental cooperation mechanisms . Uh-huh . It was a very successful , er , response . I think many good things can be summed up from this . Yes .
Yang Yang
PERSON
, based on your understanding , ah , as pipes that directly affect many common people 's lives were damaged after the accident , based on your understanding of the situation , how was remedial work carried out ? For instance , it is very cold during winter in
Beijing
GPE
, and the temperature
last night
TIME
dropped to
one
CARDINAL
of the lowest points recently . Er , heating pipes were indeed damaged .
Well , at the time , it affected residents living in an area of
about 70,000 square meters
QUANTITY
of
Beijing
GPE
. Well , , in this regard , the
Chaoyang
GPE
district government did a very good job . After it , er , received this order from the municipal government , it immediately sent , electric heaters to residents in
more than 200
CARDINAL
households within this area . It should be said that many residents spent quite a warm
night
TIME
at home
yesterday
DATE
. Well , furthermore , in the emergency repair process , ah , it should be said that the heating pipeline was restored relatively quickly . Hence , over here , I think the municipal government , ah , including sub-district offices , made a lot of effort to take good care of resident households . I think it was done in a very humanitarian manner . Uh-huh . Uh-huh .
Professor
Zhou
PERSON
, actually for such a large scale city as
Beijing
GPE
that has
more than 14 million
CARDINAL
people , ah , for such a big city , a suddenly occurring public emergency like this should be said to be relatively common . Yes . I think it should be unexpected yet at the same time within expectations . For instance , we see that other , er , domestic and overseas cities have experienced similar incidents . Perhaps many overseas cities have had such kind of thing before . This is because a city is a gathering place for modern life . It is a highly civilized place , as well as , however , in fact a gathering point for various conflicts , social , economic , security , various aspects of conflict . Hence it is not at all surprising for such an accident to occur . The critical thing is -- But the critical thing is how emergency plans are activated after the occurrence of such accidents , and for a city , this is a test of its response capabilities .
Yes . Yes . Yes , I think through a few incidents that happened in
Beijing Municipality
GPE
over
recent years
DATE
, such as SARS , the snowfall
a few years ago
DATE
, the heavy rains
two years ago
DATE
, and the road cave - in at
East Third Ring Road
LOC
this time , I think it can be seen that
Beijing Municipality 's
GPE
response capabilities continued to improve each time . Right . It can be said that this time , what was done has received favorable comments from everyone . Um , well , I think ,
Yang Yang
PERSON
, perhaps you have stronger feelings on this aspect , ah . Yes . Because you often have this kind of direct SMS exchange with listeners . It is because , we ,
Beijing Traffic Radio Station
ORG
, has become a part of emergency planning in
Beijing
GPE
.
Well ,
Beijing Traffic Radio Station
ORG
is to be activated as a media for emergency plans that are grade
three
CARDINAL
and above . Well , for instance , as people still vividly remember , at the time of that snowfall just mentioned by Professor
Zhou
PERSON
that people still vividly remember , there were no plans .
Beijing Municipality
GPE
still had no emergency plan . Well , at that time , it happened that I was hosting
the Unblocked All the Way
WORK_OF_ART
program in the studio that evening . Well , at that time , traffic was not at all unblocked . Ah , at that time there was none of this kind of interaction . It was not clear , it was very congested . You sat inside the studio and only knew about the heavy snowfall . You could find out other news only by telephone . The various methods and channels were extremely unclear .
Well , later , when we experienced that rainfall in
Beijing
GPE
, that rainfall
two years ago
DATE
, as well as some days of sand storms , all channels and early warning mechanisms were activated in quite an orderly manner . From our perspective as media , I think it was precisely by going through those breaking - in , trials that we could be so calm in handling such an emergency
today
DATE
, ah , and give everyone the most effective announcements and notifications , and instructions . Yes , therefore , as a local media in this city , it should become a proactive participant when there is a public emergency in the city . Yes . It should play its individual role in the process of resolving emergencies . Ah , apart from this , Professor
Zhou
PERSON
, what do you think are the areas for improvement for a city , especially a booming city , when handling this kind of public emergency ? Right , I think this gave us many revelations , ah .
First
ORDINAL
, I think one that should be especially important is early warnings and forecasts . This is because currently , there are , ah , frequently various kinds of risks lurking in cities , ah .
Early warnings and forecasts . Yes , this kind of early warning and forecast mechanism . Uh-huh . It is not only for , this kind of sudden road cave - in , it also includes , for instance , security incidents , ah , in our society , as well as natural disasters , ah , and including public health incidents . Uh-huh . That is , this kind of scientific early warning and forecast mechanism must be set up . Uh-huh . In this way , you can manage and resolve an abnormal situation by turning it into a normal situation , without evolving into a sudden public emergency . Uh-huh . Another thing I want to say is that besides , ah , emergency response and speedy integration mechanisms , I think some corresponding improvements should be made to the release of information , incident investigation , ah , and the relevant post-incident , responsibility system .
In fact , , that is , we should say that the government already has quite a number of relevant systems in this respect . For instance , we have an administrative investigation system for incidents of major responsibility . We have regulations on investigation procedures for very major incidents , as well as others such as emergency response methods for handling public health incidents and public health emergencies , among others . That is to say , we have many corresponding systems . However , the question is how city management , er , handles these various kinds of perhaps unpredictable cases . Since we are entering new circumstances of human living , circumstances that contain high risk and have an increasingly developed urbanized life , well , I think corresponding improvements should be made to the formation of a series of systems that includes scientific planning , early warning and forecast , emergency response , accident investigation , and accountability . Um , well , based on your understanding of the situation , and from an international perspective , what are some better ways of urban management that are worthwhile for us to learn ? I think , in comparison to
China
GPE
, we should say that urbanization in foreign countries developed earlier and is more widespread . Their level of development is more advanced than ours .
Although the scale of our urbanization is currently expanding at a rate of
1 %
PERCENT
per year , I think , with our economic development being relatively backward , we actually still have many aspects of urban management to learn from foreign countries . For instance , many of the pipes involved in this incident were basic infrastructure , public utilities industries . With a background of liberalization , marketization , and privatization , how can the government strengthen supervision of public utilities industries ? How can a safe , assured system be established ? Well , we need to learn and manage this . Uh-huh . For instance , regarding information disclosure , well , our speed of information disclosure this time was very fast . However , we still have a lot of work to do in making the information disclosure , er , system more standardized , that is , to really implement a system of levels of responsibility . Well , we also need to explore how cooperation mechanisms between departments execute cooperation under normal situations and , well , how departments should cooperate with one another under these kinds of public emergency circumstances . Well , for some of our emergency contingency plans , well , ah , how will these emergency contingency plans withstand these tests ?
We know that currently , many ministries and commissions , as well as people 's governments at the provincial level , along with those at municipal and district levels , have set up emergency contingency plans for public emergencies , but many of them have not been put to the test . Well , how will they undergo testing ? These also include some of our command and policy - making systems . So , with the growth of urbanization and with more and more of such complicated issues , ah , I think there will be increasingly high requirements on the systems . That is , development of future systems is one of the top current priorities . How can we institutionalize our response mechanisms and make them into a system so as to ensure the lifestyle of people who live in such a large - scale city ?
The State Council
ORG
has proposed a public emergency contingency plan , called
One Plan
PRODUCT
,
Three
CARDINAL
Systems . Uh-huh . "
One
CARDINAL
plan " refers to the contingency plan , and "
three
CARDINAL
systems " refers to systems of organizations , mechanisms , and laws . So , I think we still have a lot of work to do in these
three
CARDINAL
areas of organizations , mechanisms , and laws .
Yes . Well , finally , let 's turn our attention to handling of the situation , ah , during the latter stages of the cave - in accident in
Beijing
GPE
. Traffic , ah , can be said to have been directed , and is basically under control now . Well , following this , repairs have to be made on this road section where the accident occurred , including for many pipes . Well ,
Yang Yang
PERSON
, based on your understanding , how long will it take ? I think that the time really depends on how the overall repair goes . This is because exploration , assessment , and repair are carried out in succession . Therefore , regarding this work progress , to repair this road section in the shortest time , um , this will depend on the work progress . Uh-huh .
This is because repair is probably not a matter of repairing the road surface alone . There is also an issue with many of the pipes below . Yes , the pipes below . Right , as it is
winter
DATE
, we know that carrying out construction during
winter
DATE
, especially that which requires pouring concrete and then -- Moreover , it is especially difficult for concrete to set during
winter
DATE
. Yes , preparation mix for making it dry faster , has already been added . But in the end , it requires time . Hence , it depends very much on factors like temperature . Just now , you mentioned that there are many pipes , ah , for instance , there is a key heating pipeline . The
first
ORDINAL
thing is to ensure that it is connected in time .
Yes . In addition , waste discharge is also very important . Waste discharged has currently blocked this up . Um , and , for instance , optical fibers , ah . Er , right now , if the optical fibers break , people in many households will not be able to watch television . Yes . At present , we should not have a problem with watching television . They are not broken . It is just that , as the other pipes have to be repaired , the optical fibers have to be rearranged , to be hung up it seems . After that , or it seems that a few steel pipes have been added below to make it safer to walk across this section .
Furthermore , let 's take water pipes as an example . Because they were exposed , The water pipes were not -- after that , yes , these were not damaged . they were not damaged and this is quite normal . Um , there is no problem with water supply . Okay , well ,
today
DATE
both of you have come to the studio and given us a lot of specific details concerning this road cave - in accident in
Beijing Municipality
GPE
. At the same time , you have also analyzed , from a system perspective , how the government has reinforced emergency contingency plans to handle such public emergency cases . Okay , thank you very much , Professor
Zhou
PERSON
and
Yang Yang
PERSON
, for coming to the studio to participate in our program . Thank you , both of you . Okay , dear viewers , that is all for
today
DATE
's edition of
Focus Today
ORG
.
Thank you for watching . See you at the same time
tomorrow
DATE
. Hello . Let 's turn our attention to the weather .
Today
DATE
, we can use
two
CARDINAL
words to summarize the weather in our country .
First
ORDINAL
, there will be a temperature drop over a large area , and next , there will be rainfall and snowfall in an extensive area as well . We see that except for some areas of
South China
LOC
,
Southwest China
LOC
, and
Northeast China
LOC
, many other places will be experiencing temperature drops . In addition , there will be snowfall in the area from
Northwest China
LOC
to
the Huang - Huai
FAC
area through southern
North China
LOC
. The east of
Southwest China
LOC
, as well as
the Jiang - Huai
FAC
area and the area south of
the Yangtze River
LOC
, will experience continuous rainfall .
However , southern
North China
LOC
and
the Huang - Huai
FAC
area will bid farewell to the snow
tonight
TIME
, ah .
Tomorrow
DATE
during
the day
DATE
, snowfall in
the Jiang - Huai
FAC
area will stop , and there will also be less snow in
Northwest China
LOC
. In addition , there will be rain throughout almost the whole of
South China
LOC
. It can be said that there will be less snow in the north and heavier rain in the south
tomorrow
DATE
. Furthermore , temperatures
tomorrow
DATE
in many places south of
the Huai River
LOC
will fall by
between four and ten
CARDINAL
degrees . Okay , let 's check out the city weather forecasts .
Beijing
GPE
, overcast changing to sunny ,
9 degrees below zero
QUANTITY
to
2 degrees below zero
QUANTITY
.
Harbin
GPE
, sunny ,
26 degrees below zero
QUANTITY
to
16 degrees below zero
QUANTITY
.
Shijiazhuang
GPE
, overcast changing to mostly cloudy ,
9 degrees below zero
QUANTITY
to
1 degree below zero
QUANTITY
.
Jinan
GPE
, overcast changing to mostly cloudy ,
9 degrees below zero
QUANTITY
to
1 degree below zero
QUANTITY
.
Nanjing
GPE
, sleet changing to overcast ,
3 degrees below zero
QUANTITY
to
3 degrees
QUANTITY
.
Hangzhou
GPE
, sleet changing to overcast , to
4 degrees
QUANTITY
.
Fuzhou
GPE
, light rain ,
11
CARDINAL
to
18 degrees
QUANTITY
.
Taipei
GPE
, cloudy changing to showers ,
13
CARDINAL
to
19 degrees
QUANTITY
.
Dalian
GPE
, sunny ,
11 degrees below zero
QUANTITY
to
5 degrees below zero
QUANTITY
.
Wuxi
GPE
, sleet changing to cloudy ,
1 degree below zero
QUANTITY
to
3 degrees
QUANTITY
.
Changzhou
GPE
, moderate snow to light snow ,
3 degrees below zero
QUANTITY
to
3 degrees
QUANTITY
.
Bangkok
GPE
, cloudy ,
26
CARDINAL
to
35 degrees
QUANTITY
.
New Dehli
GPE
, sunny ,
6
CARDINAL
to
19 degrees
QUANTITY
.
Seoul
GPE
, overcast changing to mostly cloudy ,
8 degrees below zero
QUANTITY
to
3 degrees below zero
QUANTITY
.
Tokyo
GPE
, overcast ,
1
CARDINAL
to
6 degrees
QUANTITY
.
London
GPE
, overcast changing to light rain ,
2
CARDINAL
to
6 degrees
QUANTITY
.
Moscow
GPE
, cloudy ,
18 degrees below zero
QUANTITY
to
13 degrees below zero
QUANTITY
.
Paris
GPE
, overcast ,
1
CARDINAL
to
4 degrees
QUANTITY
.
Vienna
GPE
, moderate snow ,
1 degree below zero
QUANTITY
to
1 degree
QUANTITY
.
New York
GPE
, light rain ,
1
CARDINAL
to
3 degrees
QUANTITY
.
Seattle
GPE
, light rain ,
4
CARDINAL
to
7 degrees
QUANTITY
.
Washington
GPE
, cloudy ,
2
CARDINAL
to
6 degrees
QUANTITY
. -LSB- -RSB-
Children are left at home in the rural areas , after parents leave to work in the city . These are called left - behind children . The parents are also forced to work in the city . In fact , they have no alternatives but to make such a decision . There are
120 million
CARDINAL
farmers who work in the city all year round in
China
GPE
, thus creating
nearly 20 million
CARDINAL
left - behind children . I want to tell them that I miss them a lot . Day after day and year after year , they long for love in loneliness and wait for family affection in defect . I think that it is especially important to have emotional exchanges with the children . Visit the children more often whenever possible . -LSB- -RSB-
In
September 2005
DATE
, a study report titled "
Concern for Left
WORK_OF_ART
- behind Children " had drawn wide public attention . While the situation of peasant workers in the city has repeatedly put society into question , the phenomenon of left - behind children in rural areas has gradually entered the view of the public .
Ye Jingzhong
PERSON
is the assistant dean of
the College of Humanities and Development
ORG
at
China Agricultural University
ORG
, and team leader of the Left - behind
Children Task Force
FAC
. In
the last two years
DATE
, he has led the task force to conduct many field interviews and investigations on left - behind children in numerous rural areas in central and western
China
GPE
, including
Shaanxi
GPE
,
Ningxia
GPE
,
Hebei
GPE
, and
Beijing
GPE
. Why did you pick the central and western parts of
China
GPE
, and not the south , to conduct this study ?
First
ORDINAL
of all , for people who work in the city from the central and western regions um , uh , according to their educational level , they generally engage in strenuous manual labor when they leave for the city to work . They are not in a position to bring their children to the city . When we conducted this research study , our focus was to analyze the impact on children when their parents , work in the city . , its main impact is the lack of love because of the absence of their parents . Therefore , we believe that whether it 's in southern or northern part , no matter which part of the country the research is conducted in , the results should be consistent .
According to your estimation , how many left - behind children are there in
China
GPE
now ? This group should be the biggest in number . Um , the most conservative statistics for the group of people who leave the country to work in the city in our country is
100 million
CARDINAL
. Nowadays , um , , um , many places , um , cite a figure of
120 million
CARDINAL
. Many people quote a figure of
150 million
CARDINAL
. Let 's think about it this way . If we actually use
120 million
CARDINAL
as the statistic for the group who leave the country to work in the city , ,
at least half
CARDINAL
of them are um , married before they work in the city . Of course , families of these married people will usually have children . Moreover , they will usually have
more than one
CARDINAL
child in rural areas . So you can imagine .
I believe the left - behind children group is definitely
more than 10
CARDINAL
or
20 million
CARDINAL
. It , uh , , in my opinion , should be
around 50 million
CARDINAL
. Of course , we have not conducted exact statistical calculations . I believe the number of this group should be particularly large . According to the study by the task force , at present , the
four
CARDINAL
main types of custody for left - behind children include single - parent custody , skip - generation custody , relative custody , and same - generation custody . Among which , single - parent custody had the highest number , accounting for
79.2 percent
PERCENT
of the people surveyed . The next one was skip - generation custody , accounting for
16.9 percent
PERCENT
. While those who lived with relatives or were entrusted to the care of someone else made up
4.1 percent
PERCENT
and
.9 percent
PERCENT
of the total number of left - behind children , respectively . According to your study , what do these left - behind children generally do with their
daily
DATE
life if their parents or parent work in the city ? Different types of custody have different impacts on their life . No doubt , , single - parent custody definitely creates less impact compared to the other types .
The impact of single - parent custody is smaller because at least the mother is at home . There is no major problem in the children 's material life . Of course , there are many impacts in other aspects , for instance , peer socialization . The one that creates a huge impact is definitely skip - generation custody . Skip - generation custody means the grandparents look after the children . There is also relative or neighbor custody that asks neighbors or relatives to look after the children , and there is a type called self - custody . These
three
CARDINAL
types create the biggest and the most impact . If we want to discuss this in more detail , let 's say , the skip - generation custody .
First
ORDINAL
, in skip - generation custody , their material life will no doubt be a lot less taken care of when compared to the usual both parents or
one
CARDINAL
parent at home situation . This is indisputable .
This type of family is not as good as the others . We had an example of a child in
Shaanxi
GPE
province . Um , there was a family ! This family had an older brother and a younger sister . Both parents wanted to go to the city to work . The father went
first
ORDINAL
, and later the mother wanted to go , too . What happened to these
two
CARDINAL
children ? The grandparents were unwilling to take care of them because in rural areas , grandparents also have to work in the field ! As a result , , this mother sent , these brother and sister , to martial arts school to study . After they went to the martial arts school for a while , um , their mother was , um , a little worried , so she went to visit them .
She went to visit them . When she saw them , , the girl cried to her and said , " I really do n't want to stay here . I want to go home . " Later , the mother was moved and brought , this girl home and had the grandparents look after her . Um , she still , ai , left him at the martial arts school . Um , um , after the girl returned , the mother continued to work in the city . When she came back
one
CARDINAL
time in between work , she found that the girl 's body was dotted with red marks and red swellings . She then discovered ah , um , the grandparents had not washed her clothes for a very long time . The situation you mentioned , is it common or is it a rather extreme example , because generally , people will think that grandparents will particularly love and care about their grandchildren ? The situation that I just mentioned regarding skip - generation custody is no doubt common .
Why is it so ? You said that grandparents certainly have special love for the children . It is true . It is true that they will go out of their way to pamper the children . However , for the elderly , with the difference in age and time , , their , ways of taking care and loving the children are different . They are influenced by their own habits . For instance , there was a child who was sick . Um , the grandparents asked him to take , a small pill that was made in
Shaanxi
GPE
. They did not even know what it was made of . It was a local method .
Um , after all , they are different from , um , young people in this respect . Instead of sending the child to the hospital as quickly as possible , they are influenced by , some habits in this aspect . , they raised this point themselves . Another important point they mentioned was that they had to take care of the entire family . " Her father and mother are not home , so the entire family falls onto our shoulders , especially when we still have to be responsible for the farm work on the farmland . So , all I can do is to feed her and make sure that she is not cold . " They also had to face such a reality , one that they could not resolve . After all , a family that had so many people in the beginning , , the parents of the children were a very important um , workforce . Now it was down to the
two
CARDINAL
grandparents . No doubt , they could not help .
In the study of left - behind children , many staff found out by surprise that the biological cycle of the farmers who work in the city , and the inculcation and upbringing cycle of their children , have formed
two
CARDINAL
parallel lines that will never meet . Farmers who work in the city are generally a young workforce in their prime , while this is the period in which their children attend primary or junior high school . Originally , they work in the city out of the hope that their children can receive a better education . However , adolescent children need the loving care and guidance of their parents even more . During this period , the absence of both or even
one
CARDINAL
parent will create obstacles to the character development of the children . This pair of unavoidable contradictions has made the problem of left - behind children in rural areas become more obvious . You have seen many kinds of left - behind children . Was there a particular case or a particular child who had left an especially deep impression on you that you still remember now ? , um , there was a child in
Ningxia
GPE
whose name was
Yao Zhengang
PERSON
.
This child , um , did not do exceptionally well in school . What impressed me the most about him was that he really missed his parents . He felt particularly lonely and especially wanted his father to come back . He said that he was sick
one
CARDINAL
time . His father worked in
Guyuan
GPE
,
about 40 to
CARDINAL
50 kilometers
QUANTITY
away from home . After his father learned that he was very sick , he ran back to the village right away . After he arrived at the village , he did not say anything , but to put him on his back and carry him to the town to see a doctor . He just carried him like that without saying a word . When the doctor in the town took a look and told him that they were unable to cure the sickness , he carried the child to the county . When
Yao Zhengang
PERSON
told us what happened , he said , " My father had never bought me so many tasty foods before .
On
that day
DATE
, he bought me a lot of tasty food while we were in the county , but he did not eat any himself . " I thought about this at that time . After I heard this incident , I particularly understood what was in the mind of
Yao Zhengang 's
PERSON
father . He might have felt especially guilty toward his child . What he felt was that " I go out to work and leave my child home . " He said that his child had also said , " When he was at home , he always encouraged me . " He would say , " No problem . You work hard and get a better grade next time , " when I had low grades . If he could receive many , such encouragements , he would not have um , um , disliked school sometimes . He does not want to go to school now . However , in his example , I could imagine what went through his father 's mind at that time .
I think that he felt very guilty toward his child . Therefore , I can feel that um , um , parents who work in the city also have no alternative . They are forced into making such decisions . Um , there was also this child . There was a child , a girl in
Xixiang county
GPE
,
Shaanxi
GPE
province . Um , when I asked , " What do you think are the changes that your parents working in the city have caused you ? " She did not answer . She went home to get a small box . There was a small finger inside the box . This was a very terrifying incident . What was the small finger all about ?
What happened was that when her um , parents left to work in the city , her grandparents looked after her . They had a cellar at home and inside was a hay cutter for cutting hay . When she went downstairs to play by herself , an accident happened . Her grandparents said , " We ca n't help . We ca n't keep an eye on her all the time . " , before they went to work in the city , they could watch her and forbade her to go down to the cellar . He had told her not to do that before . However , I said that sometimes it is very difficult to ask children to have self control . That was why she turned this way .
-LSB- -RSB- This is
Ruangang
PERSON
village ,
Bocang
GPE
town ,
Yi county
GPE
,
Hebei province
GPE
. Among the
303
CARDINAL
households in the village ,
one - third
CARDINAL
of the families have people who work in the city .
More than half
CARDINAL
of the children in the village are left - behind children . Most of the children 's parents are in the southern part of the country . Many people want to save some travel expenses and earn some more money , so it is very common for them not to return home for
a year or
DATE
two
CARDINAL
. Life is so vast . Life is an ocean wherever life exists . It has been
six years
DATE
since
14 - year - old
DATE
Jiang Beiwen
PERSON
was sent by his parents to live with his maternal grandfather in
Ruangang village
GPE
. His parents rely on selling rice in
Guangzhou
GPE
to support their child 's education .
They live a very hard life . Little
Beiwen
PERSON
has not seen them once in
the past six years
DATE
. Oh , I see so many children here who can turn for comfort in their parents ' arms ! Ah , I envy them . So , I also , want to be able to turn to comfort in my parents ' arms . I was at school the time I missed my mother the most . Uh huh . We had a market ! Oh , every day , there were parents who bought things for their oh , sons and daughters . I also wish that my parents could buy me things .
I envied them very much . That was when I missed my mother the most . This is
Jiang Beiwen 's
PERSON
favorite photo . It was taken with his father
six years ago
DATE
, before he sent him to live with his maternal grandfather . He was
only eight years old
DATE
at that time . The only connection that little
Beiwen
PERSON
has with his parents now is to talk on the phone with them once a week . In his opinion , affection among family members is something unreachable . How often can your mother call you ? Uh , once a week ! What do you talk about ?
I will talk about my studies and life . My schoolwork was not quite good when I
first
ORDINAL
came ! My mother scolded me in the beginning when my schoolwork was poor . She said that I was losing honor for not doing well at school ! Then I cried and after that , my mother cried , too . Since they move from place to place in the city to work all year round , parents of left - behind children have little communication with their children . While for temporary custodians , they are only limited to providing superficial care , such as making sure the children have food and stay warm , but can not fulfill the responsibility of educating the children . The survey found that
36.7 percent
PERCENT
of the children had never been to their parents ' workplace .
8.2 percent
PERCENT
of the parents almost never contacted their children .
21.4 percent
PERCENT
of the parents contacted their children less than once a month .
Since their parents are absent , how can these children communicate and exchange with their parents ? Our study found that um , um , the principal means of contact between the left - behind children and their parents was through the telephone . However , contrary to our belief that they could talk on the phone for a long time when they called ,
approximately 50 percent
PERCENT
of the left - behind children we surveyed talked on the phone with their parents for
three minutes
TIME
or so . What could they talk about in
three minutes
TIME
? I think it is hard to say anything meaningful in
three minutes
TIME
. Of course , we also studied what these children talked to their parents about in these
three - minute
TIME
telephone conversations . What did the parents who worked in the city talk about with their children ? What touched us very deeply was that
70 percent
PERCENT
of the content of the children 's conversations with their parents was to ask about their safety and not other things , such as how much they had earned . As for the content of the parents ' conversations with their children ,
first
ORDINAL
, it was school . Whether they were good and how their schoolwork was .
Second
ORDINAL
, it was whether they obeyed their custodians and what they ate and things like that . Uh , as for safety matters , in fact , they could not have any emotional exchange . We know that sometimes when we talk on the phone , even a pause is a need for emotional exchange . However , the parents may not have realized this . For instance , the child has stopped talking . He stops talking because he needs to pause to consider how to say what is in his mind . The parents may not have realized this point , so they hang up the phone immediately . Of course , for
three minutes
TIME
, why was it only for
three minutes
TIME
? In many cases , it was because they worried about the charge . , many left - behind children told us that they especially wanted to call their parents on the phone .
However , um , they considered that um ,
one
CARDINAL
thing , sometimes they did not have a telephone at home . It was very difficult for children to borrow the phone from their neighbors .
Second
ORDINAL
, um , they considered that they needed money to make a phone call . Some children told me , " I secretly called my parents when my custodians were not home . " The children have a great need for this type of telephone exchange . Do the left - behind children understand why their parents work in the city ? Um , um , we conducted a survey on this question . We were very surprised to find that
40 percent
PERCENT
of the left - behind children had no idea what jobs their parents held away from home . How could that be possible ?
How could that be possible ? We interviewed some left - behind children , their custodians , and the people who work in the city . Why would n't the children know what they did ?
First
ORDINAL
, we can tell from the content of the
three - minute
TIME
telephone conversations we mentioned earlier that children are particularly concerned about the safety of the parents who work in the city . However , a lot of the work that the parents engaged in is dangerous work , including coalmines , construction , and some others , many of them are dangerous jobs . Thus , I believe the parents of these left - behind children also choose not to take the initiative and tell them the nature of their job . Why do they do that ? It is because they are afraid that their children will worry .
Second
ORDINAL
, , parents , especially fathers , who work in the city have a particularly lofty image in the children 's mind . Maybe they do not want their children to know about the nature of their job or tell them what they do .
They , do not want to destroy the lofty image of themselves in the child 's mind . At
noon
TIME
, the maternal grandmother and maternal grandfather went to work in the field and did not come home .
Jiang Beiwen
PERSON
has to make lunch for himself . This happens to him very often . He could look after himself since he was
nine
DATE
. What work are you going to do
today
DATE
, other than cooking ? Uh , I will do the dishes after I finish eating . If it is
Sunday
DATE
when I am free , I will , also do some farm work . What kind of work ? Uh , I will hoe the field , uh , when we are in a hurry to till the land for growing crops , I will help do some work .
Do you still remember your mother 's cooking ? Uh huh , I do . It was especially tasty . Now , the most I want to know is , my parents ' health . Why do you want to know about that ? It is because I care about my parents very much . I think about their work because I know that they work in the city because of me , so I care about them a lot . They will be worn out from working in the city , working in the city to make money . I believe it is also because of me , so I care about their health a lot . Because of you , why is it because of you ?
Because if they did n't have me , I think they uh , would be a lot more , relaxed when they worked . Then , are these children willing to live with their parents ? Or go to the city with them ? In regard to this ,
first
ORDINAL
, , children all want their parents to come back to live with them . However ,
51 percent
PERCENT
of the children we surveyed were unwilling to go to the city with their parents , go to the city , to live in the city . However , they all wanted their parents to come back , but
half
CARDINAL
of the children did not want to go to the city . We also asked them why they did not want to go to the city . This was also very surprising to us . They said that the city is another world and they were especially worried . They were afraid that once they go to the city , they will not be able to assimilate into the schools and things like that .
Second
ORDINAL
, they realized that it is already a very difficult task for their parents to work in the city . Their parents have to send money home , among other things . If they go live with them , they will add more burdens to their parents . If we are in the city every day , live in the city every day , we may know that oh , city life is like this . As for children from rural areas and people from rural areas who work in the city , they are not familiar with this world and they have a type of fear . As for parents , are they more willing to bring their children with them or leave them at home ? I believe when parents make this decision , their main consideration is not willing or unwilling . All parents , I can say the majority of the parents , definitely want to live with their children . However , with the reality that they have to face , I believe that they can not solve this problem . Of course , we know what the reality is .
First
ORDINAL
, their families are rather poor to begin with . Only the lower - middle class will leave the rural areas and work in the city . They have to make money to support the family . They will need a huge sum of money in order to bring their children to the city . Nonetheless , I believe there are also many other reasons . They also have to consider whether their children can go to school in the city . They have to find a place to live . All these are problems that they need to resolve . The problems they face are too many . If the children go to the city , the expenses will be very high .
Since circumstances do not permit , they can not bring their children with them , according to their will or their psychological need . Many parents are unable to bring their children with them . What would you tell your parents if you could see them now ? I want to tell them that I miss them very much . Judging from the surface , is there any obvious difference between the character of these left - behind children and non-left - behind children ? It is hard to tell from the surface . Why is it so ? For these children , it depends on how long their parents have been working in the city . For example , some have just gone for
a year
DATE
, while others have gone for
10 years
DATE
already .
In this case , um , generally speaking , uh , we did not conduct any psychological testing or comparison in this psychological aspect . However , many schools and custodians reported that many left - behind children had become very withdrawn . They had very strange um , um , temperaments . They did not like to speak . There was , a child who was in
the first year
DATE
of junior high school . Um , um , he told us himself that he particularly , um , um , misses his father . He was very good at school . However ,
one
CARDINAL
time we visited him , his um , family told us that he was
second
ORDINAL
in his class in his examination . After that , he became extremely , extremely , annoyed . Um , um , um , his language and other things became very strange .
Um , um , we also asked his um , um , grandparents who had custody of him . They said that when his father was home , he would always encourage him and um , exchange with him . Um , of course , it was not necessarily because his parents worked in the city . However , for some left - behind children , their parents working in the city has caused some psychological abnormalities and unusual development . This situation indeed exists . After all , these are families whose love is inadequate and incomplete . I believe love is especially important . Children need love from the time they are small . We have to understand our
Chinese
NORP
saying , " The child is father to the man . " What it says is that the character that children form at a very young age will affect their entire life .
Only children who are loved and who realize the importance of love since they are young will be able to love other people in the future . This is the case . Therefore , for this type , um , um , um , this group of left - behind children , psychologically , they do not have family love . Um , , if the parents work in the city , these children perhaps will not receive timely attention when they encounter many difficulties at home . Perhaps the neighbors around are all facing different realities and can not offer them timely love . Under this situation , I believe , I am not sure , um , I am unwilling to imagine what mentality and character these children will develop when they grow up . Will they believe there is love in society or not ? Will they think that love is important in society or not , because they have never experienced it . They have never completely experienced it . Thus , if such a large group in society does not realize that love should be , um , given or received in society , I think this is , something that I do not want to imagine .
Despite the guarantee in food , clothing , and school that left - behind children get because their parents work in the city to make money , they do not have the psychological and physiological satisfaction that they require . According to the survey ,
more than half
CARDINAL
of the left - behind children were dissatisfied with their current life .
58 percent
PERCENT
of the left - behind children believed that they were unhappy . Are the parents worried about leaving their children at home by themselves ? Do they understand the living conditions of their children at home ? They thought that this was a reality that they could not um , um , face . They were condemned to this reality . No doubt , I think some , um , parents have not had such profound consideration . Why do n't they ? I believe people are all the same .
If they face such an urgent need for a livelihood , their
first
ORDINAL
consideration will be the need for a livelihood . They can not consider the deeper issue of children 's safety and psychology when their livelihood has not been solved , satisfied , and guaranteed . For example , there were
two
CARDINAL
sisters who lived in a cave dwelling in
Shaanxi
GPE
province . Many people whom we interviewed lived in cave dwellings . Once there was a flood . , these sisters stayed in the cave dwelling to look after the home ! This happened in the rural area . These
two
CARDINAL
children were looking after the home . Their uncle saved them when the flood was almost past their bellies . Their father called later to see if they were fine .
The family told him that they were fine . He did not come back after that . He did not come back to check if everything was fine . I believe the reason he did not return was that he would ponder whether he should return or not .
Iraq
GPE
in the shadows /. As
Iraqis
NORP
vote on a new constitution have the media dropped the ball on this long and bloody war /? Has
Iraq
GPE
been overshadowed by
Katrina
EVENT
and
Tom DeLay
PERSON
and
Harriet Meyers
PERSON
and the
Pakistan
GPE
quake /? A conversation with columnist
Tom Friedman
PERSON
/. Was
Sixty Minutes
WORK_OF_ART
unfair to
Bill Clinton
PERSON
in airing
Louis Freeh 's
PERSON
charges against him /?
Former
Clinton
PERSON
lawyer
Lanny Davis
PERSON
in our new Talk Back to the Media segment /. Plus that bogus subway terror alert /. Why did n't television slam on the brakes /? Welcome to
Reliable Sources
WORK_OF_ART
/. I 'm
Howard Kurtz
PERSON
/. You 're joining us at our new time
ten AM eastern
TIME
seven
CARDINAL
pacific for
a full hour
TIME
of media analysis
every week
DATE
/. We have some new segments we 'll be adding in
the coming week
DATE
/. so stay tuned /. I had a wide ranging sitdown with
Pulitzer Prize
WORK_OF_ART
winner
Tom Friedman
PERSON
/.
but first
Judy Miller
PERSON
and
the New York Times
ORG
finally go public on the front page
this morning
TIME
with their
nearly six thousand
CARDINAL
word account of the
CIA
ORG
leak investigation /. In a separate
first
ORDINAL
person account
Miller
PERSON
confirmed that she told the grand jury that
Scooter Libby Dick Cheney 's
PERSON
top aide discussed with her
as many as three
CARDINAL
times the role of
Valerie Plame
PERSON
as a
CIA
ORG
employee /. This says the
Bush
PERSON
administration was angry about her husband
Joe Wilson 's
PERSON
role in criticizing President
Bush
PERSON
on whether
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
had weapons of mass destruction /. The conclusion by a team of
Times
ORG
reporters /. The
Times
ORG
incurred
millions of dollars
MONEY
in legal fees in Miss
Miller
PERSON
's case /. It limited its own ability to cover aspects of
one
CARDINAL
of the biggest scandals of
the day
DATE
/. Even as the paper asked for the public 's support it was unable to answer its questions /. Among the journalistic revelations,
Miller
PERSON
released from jail
last month
DATE
says she pushed for a story on the outing of
Valerie Plame
PERSON
back in
two thousand three
DATE
/. She never wrote one /. but her former boss says no way /.
that never happened /. And the
Times
ORG
was so conflicted in covering the controversy the editors killed the story about
Libby
PERSON
and pulled their punches in other ways /. And joining us now in
Los Angeles
GPE
Arianna Huffington
PERSON
the syndicated columnist and founder of the blog huffington post dot com /. in
Minneapolis
GPE
Lucy Dalglish
PERSON
executive director of
the Reporters ' Committee for Freedom of the Press
ORG
/. and here in
Washington
GPE
Frank Sesno
PERSON
professor of public policy and communication at
George Mason University
ORG
and a
CNN
ORG
special correspondant /.
Frank Sesno
PERSON
has
the New York Times
ORG
belatedly to be sure fought and finally made an honest accounting of its role of
Judy Miller 's
PERSON
role and the tensions that she created in the newsroom /? Well an honest accounting /. yeah maybe /. but not a full accounting /.
You know and if the whole bottom line of this mess is that the public has the right to know and that that 's what this is all about the public still does n't know a lot of things /. There 's still a lot of questions here /. Why was that waiver that
Miller
PERSON
was apparently granted by uh
Scooter Libby
PERSON
a year ago
DATE
/- Why did it wait until she sat in jail for all that time before she actually took up on it /? you know she 's referred to in the
Times
ORG
' own account as Miss
Run Amuck
PERSON
/. She was pulled off of certain stories on
Iraq
GPE
's weapons of mass destruction /. What are her motives and bottom lines to the secrecy of this whole thing /? There 's a lot we still do n't know /. Miss
Run Amuck
PERSON
was a name she gave herself quite proudly apparently /.
Arianna Huffington the Times
PERSON
piece a lengthy piece acknowledges that
Judy Miller
PERSON
was a controversial figure in the newsroom whose own WMD reporting was wrong and that while she claims to have pushed for this uh story on
Valerie Plame
PERSON
two years ago
DATE
Jill Abrahamson
PERSON
now the paper 's managing editor says No way /.
That did n't happen /. In other words there 's a dispute in the accounts /. Pretty candid stuff for a newspaper to publish about itself would n't you say /? Well as
Frank
PERSON
said there are many unanswered questions /. And there are many very devastating eh comments and conclusions about
Judy Miller
PERSON
as a journalist /. I do n't think the
Times
ORG
had any choice though
Howie
GPE
. Because remember as a press reporter back on
July twenty - seventh
DATE
the turmoil in the newsroom has been going on for
months
DATE
about
Judy Miller
PERSON
and the way the paper has decided to cover the story and the way they decided to present her as a martyr for the
first
ORDINAL
amendment /. And the main unanswered question here is why did
Arthur Sulzberger
PERSON
the newspaper 's publisher allow
Judy Miller
PERSON
to hijack the reporting of that story and the editorial policy on that story /. And the similarities for the Jayson Blair case /. Remember after
the Jayson Blair
ORG
scandal broke we had a
seven thousand
CARDINAL
word story that did not give a full account of what happened . Especially about why is a major institution like the
Times
ORG
ignoring so many red flags /. Alright /.
In the story one of things that we learn is that
Bill Keller
PERSON
took
Judy Miller
PERSON
off her WMD beat as one of his
first
ORDINAL
personnel decisions when he took eh the reins as editor /. Alright /. Well uh I agree there are some unanswered questions /. but I 'm willing to give the
Times
ORG
a little more credit than you for at least attempting to answer uh many of the questions /. And
Lucy Dalglish
PERSON
here 's the thing that jumped out at me in the story /.
Judy Miller
PERSON
acknowledges that at
Louis Libby 's
PERSON
request this is the
Dick Cheney
PERSON
aide she agreed to refer to him and in stories not as a senior administration official but as a former
Hill
ORG
aide because he had once worked on
Capitol Hill
LOC
/. Do you have a problem with that sort of thing /? I thought that was a little bit misleading /. And I thought it was odd /. I mean her justification was that well he had been a former
Hill
ORG
staffer /.
Um but that was a strange request /. and I think the agreement was strange /. I 'll agree with you on that /.
Frank Sesno
PERSON
the
Times
ORG
was so hamstrung by its passionate embrace of this reporter who after all was facing jail did go to jail /.
One
CARDINAL
can understand the emotions uh that were unleashed here /. and yet the editors discouraged stories on the
CIA
ORG
leak investigation and
one
CARDINAL
time killed a piece written by a reporter about
Scooter Libby
PERSON
/. Was that an abdication of journalistic responsibility /? Maybe yeah maybe /. I mean what it really shows
Howie
PERSON
I think is just how difficult it is for news organizations to report on themselves /.
You know news organizations demand total transparency whether you 're
General Motors
ORG
or
United States
GPE
government /. We want access /. We want explanation /. We want full disclosure /. But it 's very difficult for them to do it themselves /. In this case and the
Times
ORG
makes it very plain in their story
today
DATE
they really suffered /. They were behind on virtually every major aspect of the story /. Even when she went to jail /? Even when she went to jail and w- /. When she won release from jail /.
Yeah at the point that she came out /. They did n't say that you know until she walked out /. And the question and this is a very serious question it 's not answered in the article /. Were editorial higher - ups and were the corporate lawyers at
the New York Times
ORG
in some way leaning on suppressing and distorting the coverage from the news uh section /?
Arianna Huffington
PERSON
uh in this lengthy piece
this morning
TIME
uh uh
Judy Miller
PERSON
is quoted excuse me as saying that there was another source beside
Scooter Libby
PERSON
that she dealt with on the
Valerie Plame
PERSON
situation /. She does n't recall who that source was looking at her notes and seeing the uh notation
Valerie Flame
PERSON
/. She got the name wrong /. Do you buy this notion that she does n't recall who this other source was /? No of course not
Howie
GPE
/. In fact I think this is the major unanswered question /.
We do n't know who eh her source was when it comes to revealing the identity of
Valerie Plame
PERSON
/. And to say that she does not recall is really as convincing as having
Woodward
PERSON
and
Bernstein
PERSON
saying that they do not recall who
Deep Throat
PERSON
was /. After all these notes were
just a few weeks old
DATE
when um the
Valerie Plame
PERSON
Bob Novak column appeared and when the whole
Washington
GPE
and the whole journalistic community was talking about it /. You know I do n't /- Incidentally there was some questions uh that
Judy Miller
PERSON
would not answer to her colleagues /. and she would n't share her notes with them although they 've been turned over to the special prosecutor /.
Lucy Dalglish
PERSON
the big news for me was
Miller
PERSON
recounting what her lawyer
Floyd Abrams
PERSON
had said to her about a conversation that he had with
Joe Tate
PERSON
who was
Scooter Libby 's
PERSON
lawyer /. Uh says um
Floyd Abrams
PERSON
according to
Miller
PERSON
's account when I would n't give him Tate an assurance that you would exonerate
Libby
PERSON
he said do n't go there /. Now Tate by the way tells the
Times
ORG
that that account is false and outrageous /.
Does this help justify eh
Judy Miller 's
PERSON
otherwise mysterious decision to go to jail and not accept the waiver of confidentiality that
Scooter Libby
PERSON
offered and sit in jail for
eighty - five days
DATE
/? N- you n- /. you know I 've been talking to
Judy
PERSON
off and on about this case for
the last year
DATE
/. This was a very difficult decision /. and you know what this all comes down to is you keep your promises when you make a promise to a confidential source /. You 'll recall
six or eight months ago
DATE
Howie
PERSON
I was on the show and we were talking about you know did
Russert
PERSON
and
Kessler
PERSON
and all the rest of those guys did they break some trust by agreeing to testify and observing the waiver /? What I think this situation and the turmoil that is obviously going on at the
Times
ORG
right now points out is the fact that we have a major problem in this country /. it 's that reporters believe they need to keep their promises to their sources /. Reporters will try to do whatever they can as long as the law allows them to protect those sources /. Right /.
But these days um with the state of our law the fact that we do not have a federal shield law we have prosecutors and civil litigants going in there and interfering with
the day to day
DATE
operation of our newsrooms /. and we just can tolerate this /. And we 're trying to /- I think
Lucy
PERSON
's on to something here if I can just say
Howie
PERSON
/. And I think this is very important because this is an ugly case /. And even people close to
Judith Miller
PERSON
say this is not the one you 'd really like to go to the mat on /. You 'd love to have a clear whistle blower case /. You 'd love to have a
Pentagon
ORG
papers case /. You 'd love to have something where the well - being and the sanctity of the Republic you know hangs in the balance /. She did n't even report on this /.
But it does point out a very serious issue /. And that is the whole notion of the use of and abuse of confidential sources the protections that reporters do or do n't have and the propensity of uh the
United States
GPE
government to have more secrecy not less /. We 've got to figure this out /. Well just to clarify uh she did ultimately uh testify about her confidential source /. The whole issue was how voluntary was the waiver of her promise to
Scooter Libby
PERSON
offered and why was she able to accept after being in jail as opposed to before being in jail /. Well exactly /. and you know what
Howie
GPE
/. /. it 's really time for
Lucy
PERSON
and other
Judy Miller
PERSON
defenders to update her talking points because what
Lucy
PERSON
just said just simply does not wash /. The truth is that as
Howie
PERSON
said she did testify /. The truth is that it 's very clear from the stories
today
DATE
that she could 've asked uh
Scooter Libby
PERSON
to call her so that she could hear the timber of his voice earlier /.
All of that could have happened /. It did not happen because clearly
Judy Miller
PERSON
is protecting another source that she still has not revealed to the
American
NORP
public /. And
the New York Times
ORG
is /.
Lucy
PERSON
/. /. Let me get a response from
Lucy Dalglish
PERSON
/. I think it 's very obvious from what
Judy
PERSON
wrote
today
DATE
she is protecting somebody else /. And
one
CARDINAL
of the reasons that this negotiation took so long is that not only was she negotiating what she was going to say about
Scooter Libby
PERSON
but you got to keep in mind I 'm a lawyer there were lawyers involved in this /. They had to negotiate with
Patrick Fitzgerald
PERSON
what he would not talk about /. They also had to negotiate whether or not there would be any type of um uh uh obstruction charges connected with contacting /.
Once you invoke the wrath or the extreme interest of a federal prosecutor you have to be very very careful /. You do n't mess with the
Feds
PERSON
/. It 's very clear in her story that she decided finally to testify because she got tired of jail because she was threatened with criminal contempt charges because she wanted to go out and now she 's saying admitting finally write a book /. All these things are there in black and white /. and to continue to portray her as a martyr is not going to work /. And on that point
Arianna
PERSON
on that point she says sh- /- Excuse me /.
Judy Miller
PERSON
says she 's taking some time off from the paper /. She wants to write a book /. She would n't share her notes with her colleagues who were writing the story /.
Do you think she 'll ever come back /? You think she 's saving it for the book /? Well it 's very clear that she would not be welcome in the newsroom /. And it 's very clear eh as I reported again that when
Bill Keller
PERSON
took her off her WMD beat they were all hoping she would resign /. Instead she threw a fit /. but she stayed on /. This is not a journalism one oh one course the way she handled both the WMD reporting and
Plame Gate
PERSON
/.
Frank Sesno
PERSON
please comment /. Jump in /. And
Howie
PERSON
I 'll tell you what /.
This is a gigantic shot across the bow of every manager in the news business and every editor and every executive producer anywhere because you got to have some uh control some connection with your correspondants and your reporters /. You got to know who they 're talking to at some level anyway because you know what /? It 's about trust with the public /. and it 's about you know ending up in jail or in court /. their story says that
Bill Keller
PERSON
and
Arthur Sulzberger
PERSON
did not press
Judy Miller
PERSON
about her conversations with
Libby
PERSON
or ask to see her notes while they were defending her /. Ask to see her /. And by the way we invited
the New York Times
ORG
to have an editor appear on this program /. The paper declined /. When we come back media speculation run amuck over possible indictments at
sixteen hundred
CARDINAL
Pennsylvania
GPE
and the President 's scripted session with troops in
Iraq
GPE
/.
Stay with us /. Welcome back to
Reliable Sources
WORK_OF_ART
/. As the
CIA
ORG
leak investigation continued
this week
DATE
media folks did plenty of speculating with no evidence about the possible indictment of a certain top
White House
ORG
official who testified before the grand jury for the
fourth
ORDINAL
time on
Friday
DATE
/.
Karl Rove
PERSON
his closest aide the number
two
CARDINAL
man in
the White House
ORG
the man that has been called
Bush
PERSON
's brain /. If he 's indicted and has to go it undermines the key source of this President 's public support his character /. If
Rove
PERSON
gets indicted that could bring down the
Bush
PERSON
administration I think /. My understanding from talking to somebody quite close to this investigation is that they think there are going to be indictments /. and possibly
Karl Rove
PERSON
could be among them /.
Lucy Dalglish
PERSON
if
Karl Rove
PERSON
is indicted , if
Karl Rove
PERSON
is indicted , what if he 's not indicted /? Is n't this the worst kind of journalistic speculation /?
Yeah /. You know I think it 's always dangerous to speculate whether or not you 're really besmirching someone 's reputation . Although I 'm not sure you can do that with
Karl Rove
PERSON
/. But it uh is very very you know eh irre- /- I would prefer that people keep an eye on you know watching him testify and going in and out of the courthouse /. But uh will it bring down the administration /? I do n't know /. Ah eh I do n't know /. Well nobody knows /. That 's the point /.
Arianna Huffington
PERSON
I used to cover
the justice department
ORG
/.
Not everybody who 's under investigation winds up getting indicted /. Ah but you certainly and you 're uh on a blog so maybe it 's a different standard have speculated about
Rove
PERSON
's fate as well /. Well not just
Rove
PERSON
though /. what we have speculated is that it might be a much more tangled web that
Fitzgerald
PERSON
is after the whole
Iraq
GPE
White House
ORG
group the group that uh in
Cheney
PERSON
's office with
Libby
PERSON
and
Rove
PERSON
and
Mary Matalin
PERSON
and
Condoleezza Rice
PERSON
and a lot of administration officials basically sold um a war to the
American
NORP
public based on lies /. I mean that is really the web /. But it seems and we find out
today
DATE
also from uh um the reporting on the
Miller
PERSON
story , that uh
Fitzgerald
PERSON
is after
Cheney
PERSON
even in some of the questioning eh of
Miller
PERSON
/. I think those were fairly routine questions about /. you have
Judy Miller
PERSON
there /. you ask about
Cheney
PERSON
/. /. He was being thorough /.
I think we 're overthinking this whole thing /.
Karl Rove
PERSON
and this speculation business you know /.
Frank Sesno
PERSON
/.
Pat Fitzgerald
PERSON
/. It 's very easy to sit here and say oh we should never speculate in journalism /. It 's irresponsible journalism /. It 's really how you speculate not that you speculate /. The fact of the matter is that
Karl Rove
PERSON
has been to the grand jury
four
CARDINAL
times /. The fact of the matter is that there are lots of people in
Washington
GPE
and believe me they 're not all journalists who are speculating what if the guy gets indicted /. It would be irresponsible I think for the media not to reflect what the discussion is here in town /.
And there are plenty of
Republicans
NORP
mostly
Republicans
NORP
who are worried about this /. Alright I want to turn now to uh President
Bush
PERSON
's uh meeting uh uh photo op some called it with
US
GPE
troops in
Iraq
GPE
whether it was staged how shocking that would be /. Let 's take a look at the actual footage /. And in your interactions with the
Iraqi
NORP
civilians in
Tikrit
GPE
Saddam
PERSON
's hometown how are they reacting to this political process /? Sir in the north central area of
Iraq
GPE
voter registration has increased
seventeen percent
PERCENT
/. Can you give us a sense for the reception of the people there in
Tikrit
GPE
/? Sir in north central
Iraq
GPE
voter regis- /- Are you stunned /? Are you stunned /? Shocked /.
I ca n't believe it /. they rehearsed it /. They rehearsed it /. They rehearsed it /. Yeah you know something /? uh I remember a long time ago
Michael Deaver
PERSON
the ultimate image meister for
Ronald Reagan
PERSON
said my job is to light the President well and for everything I do to put the President in a good light /. Now look
first
ORDINAL
of all this is uncomfortable to see /. and what the problem this now creates for
the White House
ORG
is {is} it plays into the credibility issue that the President has that everything now is becoming a photo op and a rehearsed event in order to rescue what are tumbling numbers on his performance on public support of
Iraq
GPE
the whole bit /. But the fact that anybody would think that you would do something like this a remote /. I mean anybody in television will tell you that 's complicated business /.
You have satellite delay /. You have
a half a dozen
CARDINAL
people sitting there /. Who 's going to speak when /. You do n't want awkward silences /. You 're going to walk through it /. so that it happened does n't surprise me /. That it hurts the President yeah that 's inevitable too /.
Arianna Huffington
PERSON
does the staging here surprise you at all /? Well it 's not the question of surpising me
Howie
PERSON
/. It 's the fact that we are talking about war /.
This is not just any photo opportunity /. Of course that 's part and parcel of the presidency /. But we 're talking about a war in which
almost two thousand
CARDINAL
young
Americans
NORP
have died /. And we are also using soldiers as props /. Yes it is shocking /. and I think
Keith Olbermann
PERSON
did a phenomenal job at exposing this on
MSNBC
ORG
/. Alright /. And I think more and more journalists are actually taking a hard look at what this administration is doing /. And we 'll have to leave it there /. Last word /.
Arianna Huffington
PERSON
Lucy Dalglish
PERSON
in
Minneapolis
GPE
Frank Sesno
PERSON
thanks so very much for joining us /. Coming up , we launch our new segment
Talk Back
PERSON
to the Media /. President
Clinton
PERSON
's former lawyer
Lanny Davis
PERSON
takes on
Sixty Minutes
WORK_OF_ART
and
ex-FBI
ORG
director
Louis Freeh
PERSON
/. And still to come
New York Times
ORG
columnist
Tom Friedman
PERSON
/. Welcome back /. In our new
Talk Back
PERSON
to the Media segment someone who believes he or she 's been treated unfairly by the press gets the chance to sound off and give their side of the controversy /.
Last Sunday
DATE
Mike Wallace
PERSON
sat down with
Louis Freeh
PERSON
who 's peddling a memoir on
Sixty Minutes
WORK_OF_ART
/. and the former
FBI
ORG
director unloaded on the President who appointed him
Bill Clinton
PERSON
/. Among his criticisms the former president 's handling of the
nineteen ninety - six
DATE
Khobar Towers terrorist bombing that killed
nineteen
CARDINAL
US
GPE
marines in
Saudi Arabia
GPE
/.
I was very disappointed that the political leadership of
the United States
GPE
uh would tell the families of these
nineteen
CARDINAL
heroes that we were going to leave no stone unturned and find the people who killed them /. to give that order to the director because that 's the order that I got and then to do nothing to assist and facilitate that investigation in fact to undermine it /. The
Clinton
PERSON
people were furious at the way
Sixty Minutes
WORK_OF_ART
hailed the segment /. and here to talk back is former
Clinton
PERSON
White House
ORG
attorney
Lanny Davis
PERSON
/. Welcome /. Let 's deal with the substance first /.
Louis Freeh
PERSON
says that when
Clinton
PERSON
met with
Crown Prince Abdullah
LOC
in
nineteen ninety - eight
DATE
, he did n't press for
FBI
ORG
access to suspects in the Khobar Towers bombing and he hit up the prince for a contribution to his presidential library /. Well not only is that false and President
Clinton
PERSON
has said so but everybody who attended the meeting not including
Louis Freeh
PERSON
says it 's false /. And my problem with
Sixty Minutes
WORK_OF_ART
is that they never called anybody at the meeting /. Until
Friday
DATE
afternoon
TIME
we did n't even know the charge was being made /.
And even then they were unwilling to put somebody on the air to contradict Mister
Freeh
PERSON
/.
Sixty Minutes
PERSON
says
Bill Clinton
PERSON
was offered a chance to come on and give his rebuttal /. What 's wrong with that /? Well
first
ORDINAL
of all it 's absolutely amazing that
Sixty Minutes
WORK_OF_ART
thinks it 's okay to air a false and malicious statement /. This is a terrible charge that an
FBI
ORG
investigation was thwarted because President
Clinton
PERSON
wanted to receive money for his library /. The charge was false /. and the only way that that can be countered is a former president of
the United States
GPE
/? What about anybody at the meeting who was willing to be on /? What about them doing reporting themselves before they air a false and demonstrably false charge /? That 's my problem /.
What about
Sandy Berger
PERSON
the former national security advisor under President
Clinton
PERSON
/? He was at the meeting /. He was in the room /. Did you offer him for an on - camera interview /? Well on
Friday
DATE
afternoon
TIME
/. You were n't there /. I was not there /. You 're good on television /. but you were n't there /. uh I talked to
Sandy Berger
PERSON
/.
We issued a statement from Mister
Berger
PERSON
/. but this was
Friday
DATE
afternoon
TIME
when we
first
ORDINAL
learned about it with
Sunday
DATE
broadcast /. Why did n't
Sixty Minutes
WORK_OF_ART
invite Mister
Berger
PERSON
or other people at the meeting before
Friday
DATE
afternoon
TIME
/? Why did it take us to get
Sixty Minutes
WORK_OF_ART
to do basic reporting to verify facts /? It 's not enough to have
Louis Freeh
PERSON
say something is so based on an anonymous source /. That 's poor journalism /. On that point let me read a statement from a
Sixty Minutes
PRODUCT
spokesman /. And this involves uh their saying that they contacted
Clinton
PERSON
's office back in
August
DATE
with a detailed list of charges and then quote in subsequent phone calls the President 's people said he did not want to be interviewed /. They gave no +substantive response to any of the allegations until
Lanny Davis
PERSON
launched his PR campaign on the
Thursday
DATE
before the broadcast and offered himself as the person from the camp who would merely disparage and attack
Freeh
PERSON
rather than deal with his allegations /.
Denials from President
Clinton
PERSON
and
Sandy Berger
PERSON
that did deal with
Freeh
ORG
's allegations were included in the Sixty Minutes report /. Well
first
ORDINAL
of all it 's false to say that I was asking to disparage
Freeh
PERSON
/. I was asking to talk about facts that
Freeh
PERSON
was saying that were not true /. You do n't mind disparaging
Freeh
PERSON
/. my observation /. no in fact I disparage any man who as
FBI
ORG
director has a personal pique rather than doing his job /. That 's disparaging /.
Secondly
ORDINAL
it is absolutely a misrepresentation that they told us before
just the week before
DATE
/. When Mister
Carson
PERSON
the representative spoke to Mister
Wallace
PERSON
Mister
Wallace
PERSON
agreed that they had never verified what Mister uh
Freeh
PERSON
had said /. They never talked to Mister
Freeh
PERSON
/.
and in fact it was n't until
that Friday
DATE
that we learned the substance of Mister
Freeh
PERSON
's charges /. So
Sixty Minutes
WORK_OF_ART
I think has just said something that is false /. When did the
Clinton
PERSON
team find out that
Sixty Minutes
WORK_OF_ART
was going to report that
Louis Freeh
PERSON
with his new book was going to have a specific allegation about
Clinton
PERSON
's handling of the Khobar Towers investigation and the business about the presidential library solicitation /. When somebody named
Howard Kurtz
PERSON
wrote a story in
the Washington Post
ORG
on
Friday
DATE
morning
TIME
is the
first
ORDINAL
time that the
Clinton
PERSON
forces learned about that false and demonstrably false charge that good reporting by calling people who were at the meeting could have done would have verified that Mister
Freeh
PERSON
made a false charge /. And even since that interview Mister
Freeh
PERSON
has backed off and has not told people who his source is /. and he has n't even insisted that it was true /. He just said somebody told him it was true /. Hold on /.
Sixty Minutes
WORK_OF_ART
spokesman
Kevin Tedesco
PERSON
said in the statement I just referred to that the
Clinton
PERSON
office was contacted in
August
DATE
with a detailed list of charges /. That 's false /.
Are you saying that 's false /? They were never told /. /. or at least I 'm now basing this on what Mister
Carson
PERSON
has told me /.
Jay Carson
PERSON
is the spokesman for former president
Bill Clinton
PERSON
/.
Jay Carson
PERSON
is the spokesperson for President
Clinton
PERSON
was not informed about the specific charge about the Khobar Towers which happens to be not true /. President
Clinton
PERSON
at that uh meeting did press the uh
Crown Prince
LOC
to cooperate with the
FBI
ORG
/. so what Mister
Freeh
PERSON
said was false /. That was not understood by the
Clinton
PERSON
people until it was read in
the Washington Post
ORG
in the story that you wrote because
Sixty Minutes
WORK_OF_ART
put a press release out /. Uh now look Lanny Davis
Sixty Minutes
WORK_OF_ART
gave
Bill Clinton
PERSON
one hour
TIME
last year
DATE
to push his own
ten million dollar
MONEY
autobiography /. He criticized people /.
He criticized
Ken Starr
PERSON
/. They did n't have
Ken Starr
PERSON
on to rebut /. Now the former director of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
ORG
uh who ca n't stand
Clinton
PERSON
clearly writes a book gets
one
CARDINAL
segment for his book /. and you cry foul /. Nobody was complaining about when
Bill Clinton
PERSON
was getting all this airtime on
CBS
ORG
/. Look /. Look this is a program about good journalism /. Let 's ask a
Sixty Minutes
WORK_OF_ART
uh journalist to say do you have an obligation to verify a charge made by the former
FBI
ORG
director as whether it 's true or not /. Is it good enough to air it just because he says it /. or should you do reporting /?
Good reporters would hear that charge and say that is an extremely serious charge to be levelled against former president
Clinton
PERSON
/. Let 's see whether it 's true and start making phone calls /. They did not do that /. That 's a fact /. Alright
Lanny Davis
PERSON
thanks very much for coming on to
Talk Back
PERSON
to the Media this morning /. We appreciate it /. Ahead in
the second half
DATE
of
Reliable Sources New York Times
WORK_OF_ART
columnist
Tom Friedman
PERSON
on whether the media are suffering from
Iraq
GPE
fatigue /. Plus that heavily hyped subway threat that was n't /.
After an update on the hour 's top stories from
Atlanta
GPE
/. Hello I 'm at the
CNN
ORG
center in
Atlanta
GPE
/. Now in the news /. Earthquake relief flights have resumed in
Pakistan
GPE
/. That 's after torrential rain stopped flights for
hours
TIME
there /. And a
Pakistani
NORP
helicopter crashed killing
six
CARDINAL
soldiers /. A magnitude
seven
CARDINAL
point
six
CARDINAL
earthquake struck
last weekend
DATE
as you recall /.
Pakistan
GPE
's prime minister says it killed
at least thirty - eight thousand
CARDINAL
people and left
about two and a half million
CARDINAL
homeless /.
Toledo
GPE
Ohio
GPE
is quiet
this morning
TIME
after a planned march by a self - styled
nazi
NORP
group sparked a riot
yesterday
DATE
/.
The Associated Press
ORG
says police arrested
at least sixty - five
CARDINAL
people /.
The march never got started /. but
hundreds
CARDINAL
of counter-demonstrators showed up and battled police on and off for
more than three hours
TIME
/. Police say the protestors vandalized vehicles and buildings setting
at least one
CARDINAL
structure on fire /. Look at this /. a semi-truck and a bus carrying high school band members collided
overnight
TIME
on interstate
ninety - four
CARDINAL
and in
Wisconsin
GPE
/.
The Associated Press
ORG
quotes the
Wisconsin
GPE
state patrol as saying
at least five
CARDINAL
people were killed /. The students were from
Chippewa Falls Wisconsin
PERSON
/. They were returning from a band competition at
the University of Wisconsin
ORG
in Whitewater /. Those are the headlines
this morning
TIME
/. I 'm in
Atlanta
GPE
/.
We have another news update coming up in
just thirty minutes
TIME
/. More of
CNN
ORG
's
Reliable Sources
WORK_OF_ART
continues right now /. Welcome back to
the second half
DATE
of
Reliable Sources
WORK_OF_ART
/. Our new time for those of you just turning in is
ten AM eastern seven
TIME
on
the west coast
LOC
/. And we 'll be bringing you
a full hour
TIME
of media interviews and analysis
each week
DATE
/. The
Iraq
GPE
story which the media has placed on the back burner in
recent months
DATE
is simmering again as voters in that war torn country went to the polls
yesterday
DATE
to vote on a new constitution with the results yet to be counted /. But are journalists getting the real story there /? To help us scrutinize the coverage I sat down with a foreign affairs columnist of
the New York Times
ORG
three
CARDINAL
time
Pulitzer
WORK_OF_ART
winner
Tom Friedman
PERSON
and the author most recently of
The World is Flat
ORG
/.
Tom Friedman
PERSON
welcome /.
Good to be here
Howie
PERSON
/. thank you /. The other day you wrote that if you were the editor of
the New York Times
ORG
you would 've led the paper with the news of
recent days
DATE
that a
Sunni
NORP
suicide bomber on Ramadan had attacked a
Shiite
NORP
mosque /. Now in reality the world that you do n't rule
New York Times Washington Post
ORG
made that part of a larger story on
Iraq
GPE
/. Uh nobody put it on the front page /. Bad news judgement /? Uh I think so
Howie
PERSON
/. I 'm not here to make a news point though /. I 'm really making a larger point which is about the war on terrorism /. I 'm a firm believer /.
How we ever going to win this war /? We 're never going to win it by way of
American
NORP
intelligence finding this terrorist or that terrorist /. We get lucky every once in a while /. but there 's only {one?} way we win this war
Howie
GPE
is it takes a village /. It only happens when the
Sunni Muslim
NORP
world basically turns people in and when the
Sunni Muslim
NORP
world restrains their own /. And what was so shocking to me about this story a
Sunni
NORP
Jihadi suicide bomber blows up a mosque number
one
CARDINAL
on
the first day of Ramadan
DATE
/. What that tells you is that there 's no controlling moral authority
today
DATE
in the
Sunni Muslim
NORP
world /. Well what is the bigger story /? And that is a huge story /. I think it should have been a big story /.
Why was n't /- Is it because of
Iraq
GPE
fatigue /? Um /. I think it is yeah /. Think it 's /- Are all the editors and producers and new executives feeling
another day
DATE
another bombing
ten
CARDINAL
killed
twenty
CARDINAL
killed
fifteen
CARDINAL
killed /. and it does n't rise anymore to the top of the newscast or the front page /? Right /. Yeah and I think that 's right /. There is
Iraq
GPE
fatigue /.
And there 's so much fatigue that we do n't sit back and say wait
a minute
TIME
/. what happened
today
DATE
/? A
Sunni Muslim
NORP
fundamentalist went into a mosque on
the first day of Ramadan their holiest day
DATE
/. and no one says boo /. this is civilization that when we accidentally or deliberately I do n't know abused the
Koran
PRODUCT
people rioted in
Pakistan
GPE
/. Yet their own houses of worship and holidays are being defiled /. And I think it is a measure of how much we 've kind of lost been numbed by all of this that we do n't sit back and say wow wait
a minute
TIME
/. that really crosses the line /. and we have to call them on it even if they do n't /. You 're recently back from
Iraq
GPE
/.
and you write about driving in from
Kuwait
GPE
/. You were guarded by the
US
GPE
navy /. and yet it was kind of a harrowing experience /. Why so /? Um you know the south of
Iraq
GPE
which is where I was the area around /. This is the safe part /. Right exactly /. I was in the safe district /. I was guarded uh by the
British
NORP
Royal Marines
ORG
actually because unfortunately they 've had now um uh roadside bombs down there not suicide bombs /. And it 's part of the general continuing insecurity of
Iraq
GPE
that um I 'm afraid has plagued this story from the very beginning /.
And it 's been I 've always felt the
Achille
LOC
's heel /. You know my criticism of the
Bush
PERSON
administration as you know we 've talked about this before is not that this war is not important /. I believe it is important much more important than I think the left has ever fully recognized /. But it 's so much harder than the right has ever been willing to acknowledge /. And on that trip you put on body armor /. their rifles were out /. Yeah /. Um how does that affect your perception as a journalist /? You 're there /. you 're being protected /.
and you must have been a little bit nervous of what the safety situation is in there /. Well I 'll tell you what 's really frustrating from a journalist 's point of view as one who have lived in
Beirut
GPE
for
nearly five years
DATE
covered that war /. When I worked in
Lebanon
GPE
you could go anywhere on that story /. You could cross lines /. Journalists worked for the most part until the very end with
Terry Anderson
PERSON
the kidnappings targets /. Therefore by the end of the
Lebanon
GPE
story I thought the best journalists there knew more than the
Lebanese
NORP
/. I always thought the best compliment you could get as a journalist is when you told the
Lebanese
NORP
something they did n't know because you were moving around so much /. What 's so frustrating about the
Iraq
GPE
story
Howie
GPE
no one has a bird 's eye view /. I care passionately about this story /. I 'm so interested in it /.
but because of the securtiy situation you ca n't move around with the freedom you want /. And the brave reporters who are there every day do n't have that freedom of movement either /. And therefore it 's limited /. and in fact as you know the administration says because of the security situation and maybe because of some biases in the media /. There 's a lot of good things going on in
Iraq
GPE
/. There 's a lot of progress being made we 're not seeing reported by the press /. Do you think that is a credible argument at this point in the mess there /? No because I do n't have a bird 's eye view /. I wish I could say /.
I wish I could be so sure /. but General
Casey
PERSON
does n't have a bird 's eye view /. And that 's why we get surprises in
Iraq
GPE
/. Uh that 's why we had an election where
eight million
CARDINAL
people suddenly turn out /. and maybe you know we 're going to see more surpises in the coming future there /. But because no one can move around with the freedom that you need to talk to everyone you do n't have that bird 's eye view /. And as a reporter as a columnist who really cares about this story I find that really frustra- /- I can not report it the way I 'd love to /. So I 've been there
five
CARDINAL
times /. but it 's episodic /.
It 's here /. It 's there /. It 's never really putting your arms around the story /. pulling back the camera a bit in
recent months
DATE
you 'd have to say that the
Iraq
GPE
story has been overshadowed by
Katrina
EVENT
by Rita by
Tom DeLay
PERSON
by
Harriet Miers
PERSON
by
Valerie Plame
PERSON
and now by this
Pakistan
GPE
earthquake /. Um inevitable with a war that drags on and on /. and these are all also important stories obviously /. but uh do you feel it 's getting the attention that it should /? Yeah /. No because to me this is the whole ballgame of the
Bush
PERSON
administration /.
Katrina
EVENT
and
Rita
PERSON
they 'll come and go /.
but at
the end of the day
DATE
the
Bush
PERSON
administration made a very big claim um that it could go to
Iraq
GPE
um and produce a decent forward looking government there /. If that happens then I think President
Bush
PERSON
is going to have a very huge quiver you know in his uh legacy there /. Um if it does n't happen I think uh the administration will be seen as a complete and utter failure /. so everything rides on this not just for the administration though but for the
American
NORP
people /. These are huge stakes involved /. And so I do n't think it 's gotten the attention it 's deserved /. And going back again to one of your
Iraq
GPE
collumns uh you observed the
Iraqi
NORP
military there which after all is supposed to be increasingly shouldering the burden of this conflict /. The slightly ragged quality left you feeling you write that if you pulled the
US
GPE
and
British
NORP
advisors out
tomorrow
DATE
the whole
Iraqi
NORP
navy would collapse /. That 's a pretty pessimistic assessment and clearly at odds with what
the White House
ORG
and
the Defense Department
ORG
say
every day
DATE
/. /.
Not at odds though with what actually the military commanders have been saying which is that the number of really trained
Iraqi
NORP
units you know are far fewer than sometimes suggested by the administration /. So you 're saying there 's a gap between what real time military commanders on the ground are willing to tell you not necessarily on the record /. You quoted
one
CARDINAL
US
GPE
senior official and what the President of
the United States
GPE
and the Vice President and the Secretary of
Defense
ORG
are saying to reporters
every day
DATE
/. Are we calling them on that /? Right I do n't think enough because there 's been a lot of happy talk around this
Howie
GPE
basically /. And a lot of numbers are thrown out /.
Eighty thousand
CARDINAL
this week we 've got trained
a hundred and twenty thousand
CARDINAL
next week
DATE
/. Here 's what you learn when you go to
Iraq
GPE
/. Where you have an
Iraqi
NORP
commander who 's a real leader of soldiers okay you have a unit /. And where you do n't have that commander you do n't have a unit /.
So the numbers the macro numbers do n't mean anything /. So I went down to see the navy there /. The navy of
Iraq
GPE
has a terrific commander /. so the people around him they 'll follow him into battle /. But you take that one guy out there 's no
Iraqi
NORP
navy /. and it 's true of units all over the country /. That 's really the key /. You say that you are angry uh that
Bush
PERSON
has fought the war as though it would be easy /. Are you particularly angry as somebody who supported the war and took heat from some of your liberal friends for doing so /? Yes /.
Absolutely because I believe this is important /. I believe that something very big is at stake /. We 're dealing with a
Muslim
NORP
Arab civilization right now that 's that 's in decline , that 's heading in the wrong direction in ways that are dangerous for them and I believe dangerous for the stability of the world /. There 's something really important here at stake /. and what makes me so angry at the
Bush
PERSON
administration is not that they did n't frame the stakes /. It is important /. But they never never appreciated how difficult it was /. They never prepared the army or the
American
NORP
people for how difficult it was /. I mentioned the uh devastating earthquake in
Pakistan
GPE
a region you 're familiar with /. Um clearly it 's become a pretty big story /.
but for
the first couple days
DATE
I noticed it was n't that much of a television story /. and the reason was no pictures no video /. No yes /. Um but also maybe there was there a little bit less coverage because it 's in a remote part of the world /? Uh
Westerners
NORP
are more interested in
New Orleans
GPE
than in
Pakistan
GPE
/? I think all of the above /. We 're so numbed also after
Katrina
EVENT
and Rita /. and now another earthquake /. /. It 's just become uh
one
CARDINAL
natural disaster after another /.
to hear
ten thousand twenty thousand forty thousand
DATE
then it 's almost hard for a journalist to process /. Right /. And it was remote /. and people are exhausted I think both viewers and reporters /. Ahead have
New York Times
ORG
columnists been asked not to write about
Judy Miller
PERSON
/? More of my interview with
Tom Friedman
PERSON
next /. Welcome back to
Reliable Sources
WORK_OF_ART
now
a full hour
TIME
each week
DATE
here in our new time slot
ten to eleven o'clock eastern
TIME
/. More now of my conversation with
New York Times
ORG
columnist
Tom Friedman
PERSON
about his book the new online charge to read him and
Judy Miller
PERSON
/. Now your new book
The World is Flat I '
WORK_OF_ART
ve got it here /.
uh monster best seller
more than a million
CARDINAL
copies better than any book you 've ever written before /. Um you were recently profiled about this in
Fortune
ORG
magazine /. and uh let 's just say that it did n't say you walked on water but it came close /. Uh but
one
CARDINAL
of the criticisms /- What 's wrong with that /? It says that you 're the composer of the nation 's talking points which was news to me /. Uh one of the things it said was that uh in your book and in your writing that CEOs play a very central role /. And the suggestion was well CEOs love you , you 're asked to speak at all these corporate events , maybe because you give them a very large uh share of the narrative /. Yeah /. Mhm /.
Mhm /. That a reasonable observation /? Yeah it is a reasonable observation /. And my reaction to that is look if I want to understand the underlying technology that is flattening the world who do I go to /? do I go to I do n't know
Central America
LOC
/? Do I go to um uh the factory floor /? Or do I go to the innovators and entrepeneurs who actually put all this together /? So I make no apology for that at all /. Um fact I would make a criticism of it /. There are n't enough people during
the last few years
DATE
who actually went out and talked to the innovators who are doing all of these things who are actually reshaping the world /.
Just the opposite /. We kind of had an
Enron
ORG
effect /. and
Enron
ORG
effect was all CEOs are guilty unless proven innocent , therefore who wants to talk to them /? And therefore I would argue -- /. Wait a second /. wait
a second
TIME
/. Journalists uh subscribe to stereotypes because there are a few crooks at major corporations because you know they 're all bad guys /? Yeah yeah /. Yeah I would say /. uh that 's a harsh uh assessment /.
I would say that there 's several things happened basically in
the last three years
DATE
/. I would call it a perfect storm /.
One
CARDINAL
was
nine eleven
EVENT
/. That distracted us okay /. The other was the
Enron
ORG
effect /. You know no one wanted to be sort of seen with CEOs /. And number
three
CARDINAL
was the dot com bust which made everyone think well all this globalization technology stuff is really over /. And as a result I would argue that really masked what is actually a fundemental inflection point the flattening of the world that we 're going from a vertical value creation model of command and control to a much more horizontal
one
CARDINAL
of connect and collaborate /. The argument of this book is that that shift is actually going to have as big an effect over time as
Gutenberg
PERSON
and the printing press /. And I would argue a little bit that it got missed because of all these other distractions /.
But it 's only had an effect on
Tom Friedman 's
PERSON
career /. In fact you were the
Playboy
WORK_OF_ART
interview /. Hey put that paper down /. /. I bought it for the articles /. Uh I enjoyed the interview /. and you said in there that your wife uh edits all your columns and she says do n't publish it /. Yes she does /. You go back and rewrite it /. I 'm afraid I do /.
/. My wife
Andrea
PERSON
edits them all /. and when she gives me thumbs down
Howie
PERSON
I have to put it in a ball throw it in the circular file and start over /. and she 's a tough editor /. Now your international readership on
the New York Times
ORG
website has gone down because of this new experiment the
Times
ORG
has where it costs
forty nine ninety - five a year
DATE
for non-subscribers at home to read
Times
ORG
columnists /. That 's got to be disappointing for you /. You know um I 'm torn /. Uh and I 've said this to my bosses /. Um I want my paper to thrive /.
and if we have a situation where young people grow up in the world that thinks that newspapers are things you read for free online who 's going to pay my travel expenses /? And at the same time one of the greatest things about
New York Times
ORG
online is I got to reach an audience that just was exponential to what you got in the dead tree edition of
the New York Times
ORG
/. And because I write about international affairs so I got a lot of young people in
India
GPE
and
Egypt
GPE
and whatnot /. and for them
fifty dollars
MONEY
that may be their tuition for
half a year
DATE
/. So I 'm honestly torn /. I really hope this works because I want
the New York Times
ORG
to have a platform that is sustainable /. But at the same time I hope we can eventually find a way to re-engage those people because definitely we 've lost some of them /. Eh in the
Valerie Plame
PERSON
leak investigation there 's an allegation bouncing around the blogosphere that I just thought I would address with you which is have
New York Times
ORG
columnists somehow been told not to write about this because of
Judy Miller 's
PERSON
involvement and being in jail , now being out of jail /. absolutely not /. Anybody tell you not to write about it /?
I mean they do n't tell me not to write about anything /.
Howie
GPE
we are home alone okay /. I mean I 'm going to
China
GPE
uh on
Monday
DATE
/. and there 's only one person knows I 'm going /. and that 's my assistant /. So um /- Did you even tell the boss /? That 's right /. so there 's no edict out there /. why people have n't written about it I do n't know /. I 'm focused on other things /.
There 's a lot we do n't know obviously about the
Judith Miller
PERSON
situation /. but why do you think that she has gotten so much criticism /? After all whether you agree with her or not this is a woman who believed in her convictions and went off to jail for
eighty - five days
DATE
/. Um you know um
Judy
PERSON
's always been a pioneer and an agent of change you know um and uh has been at the forefront of a lot of stories /. and people like that in our business um uh engender a lot of attention a lot of criticism and a lot of jealousy /. Um and uh that 's the only way I can really explain /.
Tom Friedman
PERSON
/. Up next did the media get carried away with
last week 's
DATE
subway terror alert /? We 'll ride the rails into the spin cycle next /.
When
New York
GPE
mayor
Mike Bloomberg
PERSON
announced
last week
DATE
that there was a possible terror threat against the city 's subways I thought here we go again /. And television was all over the story /. Here in
New York
GPE
tonight
TIME
officials say they are increasing security on the city 's massive subway system because of what they call a significant and credible threat /. The threat to attack the subways in
coming days
DATE
comes from overseas /. and the police here will be searching bags briefcases even baby strollers to try to stop it /. It was let 's face it irresistable /. And since it was right there in
the Big Apple
ORG
cable anchors and correspondents could provide almost non-stop on the scene coverage /. The threat concerns the
New York City
GPE
subway system behind me around me literally beneath our feet here in
Times Square
FAC
/. The
Fox News
ORG
alert
New York City
GPE
subways are on a heightened state of alert
this evening
TIME
after what officials are describing as a specific threat /. And the city 's tabloids were n't far behind /.
The problem as with so many previous terror alerts is that allegations from informants are inherently shaky /. And some correspondents offered caveats of course /.
MSNBC
ORG
anchor
Keith Olbermann
PERSON
could n't help but notice on
that day October six
DATE
it was news that
Karl Rove
PERSON
had been called back to testify in the
CIA
ORG
leak case and
the white house
ORG
is being assailed by conservatives over the
Harriet Miers
PERSON
nomination /. events that have been politically disadvantageous to the current administration have been uh occuring simultaneously or followed quickly upon with something related to terrorism on a big scale /. By
the next morning
TIME
the New York Times
ORG
and
the Washington Post
ORG
were reporting that federal authorities were playing down the threat as noncredible /. But the TV coverage kept rolling down the track like the number
four
CARDINAL
express /. Finally
last Tuesday
DATE
some newspapers and then the cable networks reported that the whole thing was a hoax /. The
CBS
ORG
evening
TIME
news gave that
three
CARDINAL
sentences /. Well
Jim Stewart
PERSON
of our
Washington
GPE
bureau quotes government sources
tonight
TIME
as saying the
Iraqi
NORP
man who gave that tip to
US
GPE
intelligence agents in
Iraq
GPE
now says the information was simply not true /. But that 's a lot more than
NBC Nightly News
ORG
and
ABC
ORG
's
World News
EVENT
Tonight
TIME
which did n't mention the great subway hoax at all /.
In an age of terror such threats obviously need to be reported /. but given the unreliability of intelligence television ought to learn a lesson here about not going on high alert and scaring people /. When we come back one network up the river without an explanation /. Reporters are tired of the usual standups you know
Howard Kurtz Oshkosh Wisconsin
PERSON
/. They want to be riding on a train or walking in the rain or something to get attention /. So when
NBC
ORG
's
Michelle Kosinski
PERSON
was covering some flooding in
New Jersey
GPE
for
the Today Show
EVENT
Friday
DATE
she set out in a canoe /. And everything was going smoothly until /- Well take a look /. Good
morning
TIME
/.
Well obviously we 're getting a nice break from the rain but not the flooding /. This is essentially now a part of
the Passaic River
LOC
in this neighborhood /.
Two
CARDINAL
guys walk into the shot /. and we see that the water is only maybe
four inches
QUANTITY
deep /. Talk about shallow reporting /. And as
the Media Research Center
ORG
pointed out this was right before
the Today Show
EVENT
accused President
Bush
PERSON
of staging his conversation with soldiers in
Iraq
GPE
/. Well that 's it for this edition of
Reliable Sources /.
WORK_OF_ART
Join us again
next Sunday
DATE
at our new time
ten o'clock eastern seven
TIME
pacific for
a full hour
TIME
of critiquing the media /.
Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer
WORK_OF_ART
begins right now /. This is
Late Edition
WORK_OF_ART
the last word in
Sunday
DATE
talk /.
All the indications we are getting even /. Um , I think that the police should all have their own district of jurisdiction . Uh-huh . If he 's going to leave your , this , district of jurisdiction , there might be some problems when making an arrest . It wo n't be as , this , convenient as in your own jurisdiction . Ah , it 'll be troublesome . Yes , yes , yes . What do you do when you encounter such a situation . I would have the security guards follow him and conceal myself well .
I myself , eh , am a plain - clothes policeman , so I would carry my work ID and wait somewhere he would show up . Uh-huh . Do n't move . I took out my work ID from my pocket , see , I 'm a policeman , I am the local regional police officer here . Well , I am the regional police officer for the something , something police post controlled in
the West End
LOC
. What are you doing here . I 'm not doing anything . That 's not right .
One
CARDINAL
look at you tells me you 're up to no good .
Uh , I 've been watching you . You 've been eyeing that lady 's pocket , that satchel . Are you planning to steal it . Are you carrying a knife . I 'm not carrying a knife . not good enough . I have to search you . So I quickly searched him . There is a technique to this . Doing the search I verified that he was carrying a tool used for criminal acts .
At this point , I did n't stop . My eyebrows did n't move . I did n't have any feeling . Uh-huh . ah , I quickly patted him down . I do this everyday . It was an awl , then I continued working downward . I worked downward , working toward the shoes , moving toward the pant legs , lifting the pant legs , and then taking off the shoes and pulling out the cushions inside the shoes . Uh-huh , nothing . There was really nothing .
Uh-huh , well , I see that you do n't look like a good person still , right . You see that . It 's
Haidian
NORP
, Uh . This is my stomping ground , ah . So go to there . When you 're there , I do n't care what you want to do . Uh , go , go . Ha , so in this way he was eh , coaxed back . Yes , he was coaxed back . After he was coaxed back , he again took his original path .
Uh-huh . Then when he was caught , his entire process was filmed with a DV machine . And is he still on your turf . This version of events given on the spot will make ordinary people feel extremely happy . Um , well , we also want to know , uh , in
Britain
GPE
, including its media and also the people , what kind of attitude they really have toward this incident . Has the incident raised any worries locally regarding security . Um , it 's fair to say that the
British
NORP
media is giving a lot of attention to the matter . Recently , the large newspapers , the
Times
ORG
,
Britain
GPE
's , uh ,
BBC
ORG
, uh , this , the major media , we should say , uh , uh , have all devoted a lot of space to this matter . Um , the reaction of
Britain
GPE
's political community toward the incident , eh , can also be said to be very , um , er , er , sharp .
So , uh , one is that at the time , um ,
Britain
GPE
very quickly summoned , um , the
Russian
NORP
, um , ambassador to
Great Britain
GPE
, uh , to ask that they promptly provide related information and , um , cooperation in the investigation over this affair .
Secondly
ORDINAL
, eh , um , the
British Home
GPE
Secretary
Reid
PERSON
, eh , he has especially formed an investigation team , and , wants to assess together with experts the incident 's , um , um , possible effects on the
British
NORP
public . So
today
DATE
, the 30th , well , the home secretary , eh , also need to explain this matter to the
British
NORP
parliament , eh , to the MPs , and undergo , um , questioning by the MPs . How are
Hong Kong 's
GPE
relations with the mainland . To describe it in
one
CARDINAL
sentence , in the past the economic relationship consisted of everybody making money in
Hong Kong
GPE
and then spending it in the mainland . But as the renminbi increases in value , many people
today
DATE
are speculating that in the future they might work hard in the mainland and then come to
Hong Kong
GPE
to enjoy life . Is such a trend possible , Professor
Ha
PERSON
. Ah , I think , um , that when
one
CARDINAL
works in the mainland and then comes to
Hong Kong
GPE
to spend money , um , there is a big difference in the wages between the
two
CARDINAL
regions and maybe , um , the burden will be quite heavy , ah . Uh-huh , but what everybody is most concerned about is how feasible it is to link the
Hong Kong
GPE
dollar , ah , to the renminbi .
many
Hong Kong
GPE
academics
these days
DATE
have come out with some calls for such a thing , oh . What 's your opinion . I think that , um , the market might have a wide variety of conjecture regarding , um , the
Hong Kong
GPE
dollar 's , ah , future and even the direction , eh , that policy on it might take , a wide variety of , er , expectations . Right . But , um , judging from the current situation , I personally think there is n't the basic support for linking the
Hong Kong
GPE
dollar and the renminbi . Nor at the policy level is such a thing being considered . Looking at the fundamentals , can we see why the renminbi is appreciating . It 's because um ,
China
GPE
's current account surplus is quite large , ah , processing trade and the transit trade -- both are processing trade -- and this , regular trade all have , this , surplus . Um , also , the growth in foreign exchange reserves has been quite rapid because the flow of money is n't outward .
You just said , ah ,
secondly
ORDINAL
, we need to look at the new products , and thirdly , look at the new technology . Uh , yes , I have also heard of such a professional voice , that there is not a lot of new technology in the
Beijing
GPE
car show this time . I believe this can be seen dialectically . Yes . Ah , eh , for any company to participate in an exhibition ,
first
ORDINAL
, its chief purpose in participating in this exhibition is to enter this market . Within a period of time in the future , as the
Chinese
NORP
market , ah , with its spending trends , the direction of government policies , and the actual strength of national economic income , will all decide for the enterprise what type of technology and products they will showcase during this car exhibition . So if we were to rate
the Beijing Auto Show
FAC
with other A - level exhibitions in the world , there was indeed a technological difference . This is an objective fact . But on the other hand , looking at the future of
China
GPE
's consumer market , I think the new technology brought to this car show is sufficient for us
Chinese
NORP
who are in the auto industry to learn , eh , to catch up and to surpass .
Recently I 've had a , ah , feeling . You know I was doing that
Inside Big Cases
ORG
program , right . Yeah . Yeah . Oh , my lord ! always talking about these weird cases . Of course , it 's possible that , this , the news media , uh , this , would deliberately search for murder , violence , and pornography . Looking for the extraordinary . But on the other hand , I would say that any of the cases they found , any single one , would still definitely make a big news story causing a sensation across the country , even if it happened in the
US
GPE
. Uh-huh .
Why were there so many . For example , psycho serial killers . Uh-huh . I tell you , at the peak I had head
about almost three
CARDINAL
or
four
CARDINAL
cases a month . Uh-huh . What was it all about . Killing people by the dozen , raping the corpses , dismember the bodies , and dumping the bodies , they were mostly all the same kind of thing . But there were n't many in mainland
China
GPE
who killed their family members , were there . They killed other people . There were very few who actually killed their own wives and children or entire families at home .
Er . There were those who killed their own relatives , uh-huh . There were also some . There have been too , I 've heard of them too -- I 've heard of them too -- I 've heard of them too . You know , recently , this , an old professor called Professor
Liu Xiwei
PERSON
published some views in
Southern Weekend
LOC
, that have stirred up a huge controversy . Yeah . Uh-huh . Well , Professor
Ji
PERSON
, uh , what position and task has
North Korea
GPE
brought with it when it came to participate in the
six
CARDINAL
- party talks this time . I think , this ,
North Korea 's
GPE
consideration may include such
two
CARDINAL
perspectives , eh , the short - term and the long - term considerations ,
From the short - term perspective , eh , it still mainly wants to relieve its current pressure and resolve the issue of the
two
CARDINAL
sanctions .
One
CARDINAL
is the
US
GPE
financial sanctions ; the other is the sanctions imposed by
the UN Security Council
ORG
Resolution
1718
DATE
. Uh-huh . Well , from the long - term perspective , the purpose , um , of
North Korea 's
GPE
participation in the
six
CARDINAL
- party talks , eh , is also to resolve issues of its concern through the process , eh , of denuclearization of the peninsula . This , there may be , er , quite a number of concerns , yet the most important one remains the security concern , an issue of its relations with the
US
GPE
. Uh-huh . Well , what needs to be emphasized here is that prior to , this , this session of talks ,
North Korea
GPE
has repeatedly stressed that it is already a nuclear country now . So in the future , the issue of the nuclear - free peninsula , uh , will not be merely an issue of , this ,
North Korea 's
GPE
nuclear abandonment itself but will also include the issue of disarmament on the entire peninsula . Yeah .
Dealing with serial crimes per se /. We can see the emerging behavior /. we can see that this is a behavior that is not going to stop /. You can have
hundreds
CARDINAL
of individuals as suspects and can narrow the focus of your investigation to a smaller pool of people /. And it gives you a starting point /. The good news is even though at any given point in time that there are these people out there perpetrating these crimes we are getting better at catching them and better at catching them sooner So that instead of waiting until they 've committed
twelve
CARDINAL
crimes or instead of having
twelve
CARDINAL
murders take place before we catch somebody now we may catch them after the
first
ORDINAL
or
second
ORDINAL
murder /. I will never in my lifetime learn why a serial killer becomes a serial killer /. But maybe the work that I 'm doing now will be able to take other people down avenues to explore with more tools with more ability to experiment with more ability to study on a hands - on basis /. But I will never learn that /. As a psychologist through all the interviews that I 've conducted all the cases that I 've reviewed what I 've learned is that these people while bright um and while at some level charming are emotionally and spiritually bankrupt /.
and I 've learned that there is such a thing as evil /. While criminal profiling has been the topic of best selling books and award winning films it is merely one tool used to solve crimes /. The fact is that often offenders are caught while committing minor crimes like traffic violations or simply because they raise suspicion of local police /. That 's our crime files investigation /. I 'm
John Seganthaler
PERSON
/. From
NBC
ORG
news in
Washington
GPE
this is
Meet The Press
ORG
with
Tim Russet
PERSON
/. Our issues this
Sunday
DATE
North Korea 's
GPE
Kim Jong - Il
PERSON
defies the world testing long range missiles which
one day
DATE
could deliver nuclear warheads /. Can this man be stopped /? With us from the
Bush
PERSON
administration the
third
ORDINAL
ranking official at
the state department
ORG
Ambassador
Nicholas Burns
PERSON
The former Assistant Secretary of
Defense
ORG
Ashton Carter
PERSON
of
Harvard University 's
ORG
Kennedy
PERSON
school of government The man who led the negotiations for
the nineteen ninety four
DATE
nuclear agreement with
North Korea
GPE
Robert Gallucci Dean
PERSON
of
the School of Foreign Service
ORG
at
Georgetown University
ORG
And the former
US
GPE
Ambassador to
the United Nations
ORG
who has visited
North Korea
GPE
five
CARDINAL
times Governor
Bill Richardson
PERSON
of
New Mexico
GPE
/.
And in our
Meet the Press Minute
ORG
former President
Gerald Ford
PERSON
turns
ninety three this week
DATE
/. He last appeared as president on
Meet the Press
ORG
thirty one years ago
DATE
when he talked about age as a state of mind /. But
first
ORDINAL
North Korea
GPE
/. on
the fourth of July
DATE
North Korea
GPE
tested medium and long range +missiles /. and their nuclear program appears to be full speed ahead /. What is the
Bush
PERSON
administration going to do about it /? Here with us the Undersecretary of
State
ORG
Nicholas Burns
PERSON
/. Mr. Ambassador good morning /. Thank you
Tim
PERSON
/.
good morning /. Will
the United States
GPE
insist that the
United Nations
ORG
impose sanctions against
North Korea
GPE
/? Well we are pursuing a very aggressive resolution up in
New York
GPE
at
the Security Council
ORG
/. and we think we 've got the votes to pass that /. But we 're also operating on multiple diplomatic fronts /. We have our lead negotiator
Chris Hill
PERSON
Ambassador
Hill
PERSON
in
Beijing Seoul
GPE
and
Tokyo
GPE
this week
DATE
/. President
Bush
PERSON
and Secretary
Rice
PERSON
have been working the phones with uh their counterparts /. And we 've also had a very interesting development
today
DATE
/.
the Chinese Government
ORG
is sending
tonight
TIME
to a senior delegation /. And you know frankly we think it 's time for
China
GPE
to use its influence with
North Korea
GPE
/.
The
Chinese
NORP
have influence certainly more than
the United States
GPE
and the other members of the international community dealing with this problem /.
China
GPE
now has an opportunity to put its best foot forward , to send the
North Koreans
NORP
a direct message that these missile tests can not be tolerated and
the North Koreans
LOC
now have to come back to the
September nineteenth two thousand five
DATE
agreement and they 've got to denuclearize give up their nuclear ambitions and abide by the agreement that they made with the rest of us
nearly a year ago
DATE
/. But the
South Koreans
NORP
and the
Chinese
NORP
have both said they do not believe there should be sanctions against
North Korea
GPE
/. Will the
US
GPE
absolutely insist that there be sanctions in the
UN
ORG
resolution /? If you look at this
UN
ORG
resolution that 's under debate in
New York
GPE
it does /. it 's a chapter
seven
CARDINAL
resolution so it has the effect of compulsory behavior by all the member states /. It says that what the
North Koreans
NORP
did was a threat to international peace and security /. It does ask all member states not to engage in nuclear trade with
North Korea
GPE
/. That strikes us as an obvious point /. And I think what we have to do we 'll see a lot of diplomacy over
the next couple of days
DATE
/.
we 'll have to see how the
Chinese
NORP
and
Russians
NORP
react to this /. but our view is that the
five
CARDINAL
parties ought to remain united and that the goal of the current diplomacy should be to use the combined leverage of
China
GPE
and
Russia
GPE
's of
South Korea
GPE
Japan
GPE
and
the United States
GPE
to force the
North Koreans
NORP
back to the negotiating table /. That 's certainly the best policy for
the United States
GPE
/. Force the
North Koreans
NORP
back to the negotiating table /. there are many as you know Mister Ambassador who believe the
North Koreans
NORP
did this launch on
the fourth of July
DATE
to get our attention Because they saw the way we were treating
Iran
GPE
differently than we were treating
North Korea
GPE
/. Here 's
one
CARDINAL
Nicholas Burns
PERSON
on
National Public Radio
ORG
/. With
Iran
GPE
the United States
GPE
has made an offer /. and that is we are willing to sit down and negotiate with the
Iranians
NORP
assuming and contingent upon their suspension of their nuclear activities at their plant in the in
Iran
GPE
/. Why not sit down in the same way with
North Koreans
NORP
Say to them stop developing your program /. and we 'll sit down with you
one
CARDINAL
on one /.
Well
Tim
PERSON
we 're trying to sit down with
the North Koreans
LOC
in the context of the
six
CARDINAL
party talks /. We 've been saying for
months
DATE
now that the right step forward is for
North Korea
GPE
to return to these talks /. but we really do n't see the logic in turning this into a test of wills between
two
CARDINAL
countries
the United States
GPE
and
North Korea
GPE
/. The fact is that
China
GPE
has the same interest as
the United States
GPE
/. It should have the same interest /. And that is to stop the
North Korea
GPE
nuclear program /. Our allies
Japan
GPE
and
South Korea
GPE
have the same interests /. and the
Russians
NORP
do as well /. And so we think we 're far better off working within the framework of the
six
CARDINAL
party talks because you get in that process the combined leverage the combined strength and frankly the combined pressure on
North Korea
GPE
of all these different countries /. I simply do n't see why it 's in the interest of
the United States
GPE
to get those countries out of the way and only deal with
North Korea
GPE
directly /.
So the problem here is not the lack of discussion between
the United States
GPE
and
North Korea
GPE
/. We 're perfectly willing to sit down with them in that
six
CARDINAL
party environment /. and in that sense it 's analogous to what we 're trying to do with
Iran
GPE
/. Secretary
Rice
PERSON
announced
about a month ago
DATE
that should the
Iranians
NORP
meet the condition of suspension of their own nuclear activities we 'd be willing to sit down in another multilateral forum /. and that 's with the
Europeans
NORP
and
Russians
NORP
and
Chinese
LANGUAGE
/. So really you know the
North Korea
GPE
problem is not a problem just for
the United States
GPE
/. What they did
the other day
DATE
on
July fourth
DATE
was to disrupt the peace and harmony of their relations with the
Asian
NORP
countries /. And the
Asian
NORP
countries want to be involved in these negotiations /. Is it the policy of the
Bush
PERSON
administration that we 'd like to see regime change in
North Korea
GPE
/? Well this is one of the most despotic regimes in the world /.
it 's a major human rights violator /. There 's massive famine /. And certainly we hope for
the day
DATE
will come when those people will live in peace and be governed by a different type of government /. Uh what we 've got to do now of course is focus on the most immediate problem /. And that problem is nuclear weapons /. The problem is the ballistic launches of
the other day
DATE
/. I think the thing to remember about those launches by the way they were provocative , they were reckless , they were also unsuccessful /. They fired
four
CARDINAL
scud missiles intermediate range missiles /. They tried to fire the longer range missile the /. and that was spectacularly unsuccessful /.
It crashed in the sea of
Japan
GPE
/. So we obviously have an opportunity now for diplomacy . And an opportunity to use the combined strength of all these countries to provide some leverage put some leverage against
the North Koreans
LOC
/. and that 's what we will continue to try to do in
the coming days
DATE
and
coming weeks
DATE
/. Will
the United States
GPE
give
North Korea
GPE
security assurances that we will not attack their country or seek to undermine their regime /? If you look back at this historic agreement that was signed in the
six
CARDINAL
party frameworks on
September nineteenth of two thousand five
DATE
those types of assurances are in that agreement /. But the
North Koreans
NORP
have obligations /. and that is to take down their nuclear program dismantle it dismantle their weapons of mass destruction programs in a verifiable way before all those assurances can go into place /. All the other elements of the agreement can be put into place /. And what we 've seen since then is we 've seen
the United States
GPE
and
Russia
GPE
and
China
GPE
and
Japan
GPE
and
South Korea
GPE
willing to go forward willing to sit down willing to implement this entire agreement that you just referred to
Tim
PERSON
/.
but we see the
North Koreans
NORP
walking away from it /. So we 've got to be very persistent and frankly very tough in combining with these other countries to pressure the
North Koreans
NORP
to live up to their commitments /. But we would be willing to give
North Korea
GPE
increased economic aid perhaps light nuclear reactors for peaceful means and security assurance if in fact they sat down and negotiated /? The
North Koreans
NORP
know what 's in the
September nineteenth
DATE
agreement /. and it 's very specific about what
the United States
GPE
is willing to do uh to take a step forward towards them should they dismantle all their nuclear programs and their weapons of mass destruction /. But they 've got responsibilities in this agreement /. and no agreement is whole until both sides meet their agreement /. And what we 've seen
Tim
PERSON
especially on
July Fourth
DATE
is
the North Koreans
NORP
in outright violation of the agreement that we made with them
last September
DATE
/. Why do you think the
North Koreans
NORP
chose
July Fourth
PERSON
/? Oh I do n't think it was coincidental /.
You know it 's a very unreliable and unpredictable regime /. The last thing we want to do is react to every wild statement that they make /. but they certainly chose that to get our attention and that of the international community /. Uh but what they 've got to realize is there is no magic bullet here /. They ca n't just think that they can sit down with
the United States
GPE
alone /. That does n't work for
Japan
GPE
/. it does n't work with
South Korea
GPE
/. and frankly it does n't work with the
Chinese
NORP
/. So I said before that one of the most interesting developments here is this
Chinese
NORP
delegation going to /. And
Chris Hill
PERSON
our ambassador was in
China
GPE
a few days ago
DATE
/.
he made the point and Secretary
Rice
PERSON
made the point
yesterday
DATE
to the
Chinese
NORP
Foreign minister , we want to see
China
GPE
use its influence /. We want to see
China
GPE
push forward and ask
the North Koreans
NORP
to meet these commitments that they 've made to all of us /. Speaker
Newt Gingrich
PERSON
the former speaker
Republican
NORP
weighed in on this debate in this way /. he offered this /. The time to replace
the state department 's
ORG
failed
North Korea
GPE
strategy of talk forever , act never has come /. For
thirteen years
DATE
the United States
GPE
has talked loudly about a
North Korea
GPE
nuclear weapons and ballistic missile threat /. For
thirteen years
DATE
the
North Korean
NORP
dictatorship has lied and hunkered down and continued to build nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles /. The strategy of talking has failed /.
America
GPE
's actions must be decisive or faced with a brutal totalitarian dictatorship about which we know little /. It is acting in defiance of all its own international commitments /.
But the time for talk is over /. either they dismantle the missile /. or we
the United States
GPE
should dismantle it /. Well uh with all due respect to Speaker
Gingrich
PERSON
we are on a course which has a reasonable chance of success /. And you never want to disavow a diplomatic track a negotiating track if you think you can resolve the problem in that fashion /. And as I said before we are not alone in this endeavor /. we have countries united with us who can apply the same type of pressure /. I will say this what the
North Koreans
NORP
have done over
the past week
DATE
is going to give a lot of strength in our efforts to develop a missile defense system /. You 've seen very strong statements by the
Japanese
NORP
government wanting to work with us in that realm /. So obviously we 're going to pursue a very tough very decisive policy over
the coming weeks
DATE
designed to focus the
North Koreans
NORP
on their obligations To pressure them to come back to the talks But also certainly to provide for our own defense and the defense of our treaty allies in
Asia
LOC
/.
And I think you 'll see us move ahead smartly in that direction as well /. Uh Mister Ambassador many critics will say
the six years
DATE
George Bush
PERSON
has been president
North Korea 's
GPE
program has developed rather dramatically That the policy at
first
ORDINAL
of isolation and then the
six
CARDINAL
party talk just has n't worked /. Here 's the latest study from
the Institute for Science and International Security
ORG
/. They estimated a report that
North Korea
GPE
has enough separated plutonium to develop now an arsenal of
four
CARDINAL
to thirteen nuclear weapons compared with estimates of
just one
CARDINAL
or
two
CARDINAL
weapons in
two thousand
DATE
when
George bush
PERSON
became president /. The group says that by
two thousand eight
DATE
North Korea
GPE
could have enough plutonium for
eight
CARDINAL
to seventeen nuclear weapons /. The group 's assessment based on analysis of satellite imagery media reports and statements by
North Korean
NORP
officials which lead
Nick Everstat
PERSON
a conservative critic from
the American Enterprise Institute
ORG
these are not
Democrats
NORP
/- he offered this /. although the
Bush
PERSON
administration 's rhetoric about
Kim Jong - Il
PERSON
and his regime has sometimes seemed ferocious
North Korea 's
GPE
leaders seem to have concluded that the Bush
North Korea
GPE
policy consists mainly of empty words and that oft repeated warning need not be taken terribly seriously /. By
more than one
CARDINAL
criteria indeed strategic successes on the
Bush
PERSON
watch outshine those from its during the
Clinton
PERSON
years /.
Would you acknowledge a significant increase in the nuclear capability by
North Korea
GPE
on the watch of President
Bush
PERSON
/?
Tim
PERSON
um obviously we profoundly disagree with um some of the statements that we 've just heard /. Eh you know we 've got a very strong military force and deterrent force at work in
Asia
LOC
and particularly on the
Korean
NORP
peninsula /. And that military can handle any contingency that should arise /. We also have a very tough policy and I think forward looking policy to develop missile defense to handle those contingencies /. But you 've got to combine military measures with diplomacy to be effective in a situation like this /. The fact is that a lot of this criticism seems to direct
the United States
GPE
back to a test of wills bilaterally between
North Korea
GPE
and
the United States
GPE
/. What we want to do is we want to ask countries that do have a great deal of influence on
North Korea
GPE
certainly more than we have to use that influence /. We can do that by channeling those efforts through the
six
CARDINAL
party framework /. And you know diplomacy sometimes ca n't succeed in
a day
DATE
or
two or a week
DATE
or
two
CARDINAL
/.
Sometimes it takes
many months or even years
DATE
to succeed /. But if you have the right policy in place , if you know what you 're trying to accomplish and if you 're very tough - minded about applying that policy we can be successful /. So we have not given up hope that we can engineer a policy that will effectively put the
North Koreans
NORP
back in the box take away their nuclear programs and take away their ability to inflict threats and damage on their neighbors /. We have got to be single - minded about this /. we certainly understand the gravity of a challenge posed by
North Korea
GPE
/. but frankly I do n't think these critics have offered any alternative that would have a reasonable prospect of success or lead us to unintended consequences uh if you went down the road that some of them are suggesting /. And we think we 've got the right policy in place /. and I can assure you we 're going to drive with a great deal of energy and determination /. But you do not deny that
North Korea 's
GPE
nuclear capability has increased during the presidency of
George Bush /
PERSON
? Well
North Korea
GPE
says that it has a nuclear weapons capability /.
and we believe that it has produced that over
the last several years
DATE
/. and that 's why we 've put in place this policy designed to take it away from them /. And if we can have the
September nineteenth two thousand five
DATE
agreement implemented it will do just that /. It will effectively de-nuclearize
North Korea
GPE
/. And so that is a good bet for
the United States
GPE
/. It 's obviously the goal that I think all these critics that you cite would share /. But we think we 've got a much more realistic in the real world strategy put in place to deal with that problem /. But there has been a profound change in the rhetoric certainly of the President on this subject /. Here 's the President
Friday
DATE
at this news conference in
Chicago
GPE
about
North Korea
GPE
/.
It takes a while for a problem to fester and grow /. and then it takes a while to solve them diplomatically /. It just 's the nature of diplomacy /. Wish we could solve them overnight /. And let me go back to
January of two thousand two
DATE
in the President 's axis of evil speech before
congress
ORG
/. Let 's watch /.
North Korea
GPE
has a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction While starving its citizens /. States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world /. By seeking weapons of mass destruction these regimes pose a grave and growing danger /. We 'll be deliberate /.
yet time is not on our side /. I will not wait on events while dangers gather /. I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer /.
The United States of America
GPE
will not permit the world 's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world 's most destructive weapons /. Since the President uttered those words Mister Ambassador every estimate is that
North Korea
GPE
has doubled its capacity to develop nuclear weapons /. And yet we 've driven forward with this policy designed to respond to all the things the President talked about back in
two thousand two
DATE
/. But he has been very consistent since then in putting forward the proposition that we have to oppose the human rights abuses of the government /. We have to try to draw a net around the fact that
North Korea
GPE
is the leading exporter of ballistic missile technology around the world The proliferator of it /. we 've done a lot to develop missile defense /. And we 've created and driven forward this diplomatic coalition designed to bring us to a victory in denying
North Korea
GPE
the nuclear weaponry that you talk about /.
So we have been very activist /. We have followed this policy for a number of
years
DATE
/. Uh the President is right /. And as I said before diplomacy ca n't be measured in a snapshot /. You ca n't just say in a
Sunday
DATE
morning
TIME
in
July
DATE
that somehow because we have n't come to the end of negotiations these negotiations are bound to fail /. You 've got to be very purposeful and directed in what you 're trying to do and apply the weight of your country and that of others to the test /. And that 's what we 're doing /. We have not given up on this quest to come to the end of these negotiations and put the
North Koreans
NORP
back into a place where they can no longer be a threat to their neighbors or to
the United States
GPE
/. But again it 's the tone and the rhetoric /. Let me go back and review some of the things the President has said about
Kim Jong - Il of North Korea
PERSON
/.
I loathe
Kim Jong - Il
PERSON
/. I got a visceral reaction to this guy /. And then in
two thousand four
DATE
there 's a tyrant in
North Korea
GPE
that wants to develop a nuclear weapon /. And then this in
two thousand two
DATE
/. the President called him a pygmy And compared him to a spoiled child at a dinner table /. Does the President still believe that
Kim Jong - Il
PERSON
is a tyrant a pygmy and a spoiled child /.
Kim Jong - Il
PERSON
is a despot /. And he is someone who is one of the worst offenders of human rights all over the world /. Uh these missile tests
the other day
DATE
were certainly reckless /. They were provocative /.
And so uh we have n't changed our opinion of the nature of the regime in
North Korea
GPE
/. No one in our government has /. We are very clear - eyed about who they are , what they represent , how much they 've denied their own people the basic human rights that people should have around the world /. And we 're focused on this nuclear question as well /. So I think there 's been a lot of continuity over
American
NORP
policy both in the substance of the policy and in the way we 've talked about
North Korea
GPE
over
the last several years
DATE
/. And uh we 're determined to press ahead /. When the president talked about the axis of evil he said
Iraq
GPE
North Korea
GPE
and
Iran
GPE
/.
The United States
GPE
invaded
one
CARDINAL
of those countries
Iraq
GPE
/. Some now make the case that
Iran
GPE
and
North Korea
GPE
took from that the following lesson that if you develop a nuclear bomb and have a strong military you will not be invaded by the
US
GPE
/.
And both of those countries have clearly miscalculated their own situation /. Now the
North Koreans
NORP
felt I guess that by testing these ballistic missiles they would somehow put themselves in a position of greater weight in the negotiations /. They 've miscalculated because you 've seen very tough statements from the
Chinese
NORP
and the
Russians
NORP
and the
South Koreans
NORP
and the
Japanese
NORP
against what they 've done /. and you see momentum building in the
UN
ORG
security council toward a very tough
chapter seven
LAW
resolution against them /. The
Iranians
NORP
have miscalculated /. They thought that they could divide
the United States
GPE
from both our
European
NORP
allies and from
Russia
GPE
and
China
GPE
/. But we 've been able to craft a major and united coalition of all those countries /. And we 've essentially given the
Iranians
NORP
a clear choice /. And you 'll see a lot of this unfold
this week
DATE
both in
Europe
LOC
when Secretary
Rice
PERSON
meets with her counterparts on
Wednesday
DATE
at the GA summit in
St. Petersburgh
GPE
At
the end of the week
DATE
when the president is there /. the
Iranians
NORP
are going to have to choose /.
Negotiations with us after they suspend their nuclear programs or further action in
the Security Council
ORG
/. So I do n't think either of these countries is on the offensive /. Frankly I think both of these countries are rather cornered and isolated /. There are very few countries defending them /. and they 're running out of options /. So we think this policy of patient diplomacy and of crafting multilateral coalitions to tighten the pressure around them is going to work /. And it 's the right way to go clearly for
the United States
GPE
/. we want to exhaust diplomatic means before we consider other means /. Based on our experience in
Iraq
GPE
particularly with our emphasis on the weapons of mass destruction that did not materialize
John Deutch
PERSON
the former head of the
CIA
ORG
offered this observation /. the next time military intervention is judged necessary to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction for example
North Korea
GPE
there will be skepticism about the quality of our intelligence /.
Do you agree with that /? I do n't /. not in the case of
North Korea
GPE
not in the case of
Iran
GPE
/.
Tim
PERSON
I 've been to
Europe
LOC
twenty
CARDINAL
times over
the last fourteen months
DATE
to talk to the
Europeans
NORP
and the
Russians
NORP
and
Chinese
NORP
about
Iran
GPE
for instance /. There 's not a single person at the higher levels of those government who does n't believe
Iran
GPE
is trying to create a nuclear weapons capability /. There is n't a single person in the governments of
China
GPE
or
Russia
GPE
or
South Korea
GPE
or
Japan
GPE
who does n't believe that
North Korea
GPE
is bent on building up its nuclear capability /. There is no argument in the real world
today
DATE
about what these
two
CARDINAL
countries
Iran
GPE
and
North Korea
GPE
are trying to do /. There is no argument remotely similar to what we went through in
two thousand and two and three
DATE
with our
European
NORP
allies over
Iraq
GPE
/. In fact we are now tightly knit up with these countries /. And if you look at what the
French
NORP
German
NORP
and
British
NORP
governments are saying as well as the
Russian
NORP
and
Chinese
NORP
governments about whether or not these countries are intending to create a nuclear weapons capability they agree with our assessment /.
So I do n't agree at all that we 're somehow limited in what we can do and limited in our effectiveness because of the disagreements that we had over WMD in
Iraq
GPE
/. Let me conclude with comments by
Bill Crystal
PERSON
the editor of
Weekly Standard
ORG
/. he used to work for Vice President
Dan Quail
PERSON
/.
North Korea
GPE
is firing missiles /.
Iran
GPE
is going nuclear /.
Somalia
GPE
is controlled by radical
Islamists
NORP
/.
Iraq
GPE
is n't getting better /. and
Afghanistan
GPE
is getting worse /. I give the President a lot of credit for hanging tough on
Iraq
GPE
/. but I am worried that it has made them too passive in confronting the other threats /.
Have a preoccupation with
Iraq
GPE
allowed
North Korea
GPE
and
Iran
GPE
to go forward with their nuclear programs and limited our options /? Well I strongly disagree with that criticism from
Bill Crystal
PERSON
/. And I disagree for
one
CARDINAL
reason /. We have a very strong and active government /. from the
Pentagon
ORG
from
the State Department
ORG
the White House Treasury
ORG
we are focused on all these problems /. We created over
the last fifteen months
DATE
a major international coalition to corner the
Iranian
NORP
government And to isolate them /. And that 's been a diplomatic success over
the last several months
DATE
/. We 've now got this six party talk framework we hope coming back together /. and certainly the
five
CARDINAL
countries are united /. Uh Secretary
Rumsfeld
PERSON
was in
Afghanistan
GPE
this morning
TIME
/.
and Secretary
Rice
PERSON
was there
ten days ago
DATE
/. and we 're giving that government president government all the support it can get /. We are a government that can operate /. and we have to operate in every part of the world /. We 're a global superpower /. We have tremendous resources at our disposal /. and frankly we 've got a
first
ORDINAL
class military and a
first
ORDINAL
class diplomatic effort /. and we can certainly take on all these issues and be successful simultaneously /. And we will be watching /. Ambassador
Nicholas Burns
PERSON
we thank you for sharing your views /.
Thanks
Tim
PERSON
/. Coming next the view of
three
CARDINAL
former
Clinton Administration
ORG
officials who spent
years
DATE
dealing with the
North Korea
GPE
problem former Assistant Secretary of
Defense Ashton Carter
ORG
chief
State Department
ORG
negotiator now at the Georgetown University
Robert Gallucci
PERSON
And former
US
GPE
ambassador to the
UN
ORG
now Governor of New Mexico
Bill Richardson
PERSON
/. They are all right here next only on
Meet The Press
ORG
/. And we are back /. Welcome all /. Governor
Richardson
PERSON
should the
United States
GPE
negotiate directly
one
CARDINAL
on one with
North Korea
GPE
/? Yes it should /. Uh our policy so far is not working /. Uh what you have is
North Korea
GPE
has quadrupled its enriched plutonium since
two thousand and two
DATE
/.
Uh the
six
CARDINAL
party talks are going nowhere /. We should talk directly to the
North Koreans
NORP
to discuss what is next /. They need to dismantle their nuclear weapons /. they need to destroy their missile capability /. The only way to do that in my judgment is face to face talks at a level of
Christopher Hill
PERSON
/. He is a competent diplomat /. Uh the successes we 've had with the
North Koreans
NORP
have been through direct engagement When I got some pilots out of
North Korea
GPE
When
Bob Gallucci
PERSON
negotiated the agreed framework /. Secretary
Albright
PERSON
close to having an agreement on reducing or terminating their missiles /. What
North Korea
GPE
is seeing right now is
Iran
GPE
getting a nuclear reactor /. They see
Iran
GPE
getting a nuclear fuel cycle that is assured economic incentives /.
On the other hand what they want to see is treated with respect direct talks with
the United States
GPE
/. But also they want to see an effort by
the United States
GPE
to give them the recognition that they feel they deserve /. I do n't believe they do /. They are a desolate isolated regime /. But right now our policy is not working /. It makes sense to talk directly with
North Korea
GPE
/. But would n't the world then say oh I see /. you test a missile on
the fourth of July
DATE
/. you get the
US
GPE
attention /. and you bring them to the bargaining table /.
Our policy right now does not work /. Look where we are right now /. Uh
Asia
LOC
is destabilized /. We are trying to outsource our foreign policy to
China
GPE
/. I believe
China
GPE
is not necessarily interested in helping us on
North Korea
GPE
/. They do n't want to see a bunch of refugees go into their country /. I believe that
China
GPE
is a competitor /. They control a lot of our debt /. Right now we do not have leverage over
China
GPE
/. The best effort in my judgment is face to face talks /.
Hard negotiating /. Get that agreement that was uh signed in
September
DATE
that
North Korea
GPE
has not abided to /. A time table for
North Korea
GPE
to dismantle its nuclear weapons /. Efforts to set up bench marks in exchange for that armistice agreement where we do n't attack
North Korea
GPE
/. They get economic assistance /. But our objective should be firm /. To get them to dismantle their nuclear weapons /. The best way to do it is face to face talks /. If the President now changed his course wo n't the headlines be
Bush
PERSON
blinks /? No /.
I believe the headlines would be
Bush
PERSON
deals realistically with
North Korea
GPE
/. He reverses a policy that is not working /. Ambassador
Gallucci
PERSON
do you agree with that /? Just about entirely /. uh I have nothing against the idea of the
six
CARDINAL
party talks something
Nick
PERSON
pounded on /. Uh uh the virtue of having all these parties in
Asia
LOC
engaged that 's /- it 's true /. it is their problem as well as ours /. But the fact is it has n't worked /. And to make the form more important than a substance To care more about whether we have
six
CARDINAL
parties meeting together than whether we stop the accumulation of plutonium is absurd in my view /.
You 'd have some conditions /. you had said prior to the missile test that if they took that missile off the launch pad you 'd negotiate face to face /. Now that they 've launched it would you have any conditions before you went back to the table
one
CARDINAL
on one /? This is kind of a rule I think that you really try hard not to negotiate with a gun or missile to your head /. And I think a decent interval now and some work at
the United Nations
ORG
is the appropriate thing to do /. But I think we 're taking a view from
thirty thousand feet
QUANTITY
right now /. what should the administration do /? It needs to find a way to get back to the negotiating table /. And the fact that you may get a headline like the President is reversing course as indeed we have in the case of
Iran
GPE
that 's not so bad if you find you 're on the wrong course /. and we have been /.
Ashton Carter
PERSON
do you agree there should be
one
CARDINAL
on
one
CARDINAL
direct negotiations between
North Korea
GPE
and the
US
GPE
/? No I actually think the
six
CARDINAL
party talks is a perfectly appropriate forum including for us to speak directly to the
North Koreans
NORP
if others are at the table /. Let 's go back to the logic of the
six
CARDINAL
party talks in the
first
ORDINAL
place /. The reason to have everybody at the table with the
North Koreans
NORP
is not only that they have a stake in the outcome as well but uh in dealing with
North Korea
GPE
diplomacy has to have a coercive dimension /. And we do n't trade with
North Korea
GPE
/. we do n't recognize
North Korea
GPE
diplomatically /. uh there 's almost nothing we can do short of military action to apply pressure to
North Korea
GPE
/. We 're capable of military action /. and it 's important that that be an ingredient of course in diplomacy /.
But the real levers on
Kim Jong - Il
PERSON
are the
Chinese
NORP
and
the South Koreans
LOC
/. It is they who essentially support the regime economically and politically /. But makes sense to have them at the table /. The
six
CARDINAL
party talks I totally agree with my colleagues here have produced nothing so far except a quadrupling of the amount of plutonium as ambassador
Richardson
PERSON
said um in
North Korean
NORP
hands and now missile launches /. So they 've been running wild for
three years or so
DATE
/. Um the reason for that /- there 's a lot of blame to go around /. you have to start with the
North Koreans
NORP
and their own intransigence /. The
Chinese
NORP
and the
South Koreans
NORP
have not done everything that they should /. uh they 've shown the carrots /.
they 've been unwilling to show the sticks that they can also wield /. I think on our side um it matters less who else is at the table than that we have our own wits about us as we sit down with
the North Koreans
LOC
/. And our government I believe has been divided over
the last few years
DATE
as the
six
CARDINAL
party talks between
two
CARDINAL
camps /.
One
CARDINAL
camp which believes that we have to give diplomacy a try and is earnest about pursuing diplomacy with
North Korea
GPE
/. But there 's another camp uh in this country and I think represented in the government that believes that negotiating with the
North Koreans
NORP
is a fools game or is even immoral because of the nature of the regime /. I do n't agree with that view because I think it 's more immoral to let
North Korea
GPE
go nuclear than to try to reach a deal with
North Korea
GPE
/. But we have been of
two
CARDINAL
minds /. and therefore I do n't think we at the table has been as effective as we might have been /. you showed some of that ambivalence in the earlier part of your segment where you see the
US
GPE
government saying
one
CARDINAL
thing at
one
CARDINAL
time and another thing at the other times /. Though it 's important that we get our story straight /.
and that 's more important than who else is at the table /. You had advocated
several weeks ago
DATE
a preemptive military strike on the missile that was about to be tested /. Many criticize that as belligerent /. and perhaps could even trigger a
North Korea
GPE
response against
South Korea
GPE
or against
Japan
GPE
/. who knows /. In hindsight do you still stand by that preemptive military strike /? Well I do /. and I want to put that in some context /. By the way I would say we should have that same position
today
DATE
That is if the
North Koreans
NORP
go out to the launch pad and erect that missile and prepare to launch it we can destroy that uh before they can do it /. To do so would be a very limited military action a single bomb a single cruise missile /.
the north
Koreans
NORP
are n't going to start a war in response uh to that kind of action /. And to those that think that 's too much I can only say where are you going to draw a line in the sand with
North Korea
GPE
/? At some point we have to draw a line in the sand and defend it /. We say things are intolerable /. we say they 're unacceptable /. and then we tolerate and accept /. former Secretary of
Defense
ORG
Bill Perry
PERSON
and I thought long and hard about this /. and we thought that this was a relatively nonprovocative way to draw a line in the sand with
North Koreans
NORP
/. Now I have to emphasize there 's risk in inaction also /. you may say there 's risk in this action /.
but I have to emphasize there 's risk in inaction as well letting
North Korea
GPE
go nuclear /. Governor
Richardson
PERSON
well how do you think the
North Koreans
NORP
would react if we took out their test missile /? Well I respectfully disagree with Assistant Secretary
Carter
PERSON
there /. But at least he 's got a new idea which the administration does not put forth /. I think if we are seriously attacked or threatened , that missile which was a test was geared to
the United States
GPE
or to our allies we have allied responsibilities with
South Korea
GPE
or
Japan
GPE
/. /. Uh you do take that step /. but the fact is that you risk uh the uh
North Koreans
NORP
shooting missiles at
South Korea
GPE
/. and we 've got
thirty seven thousand
CARDINAL
American
NORP
forces at the
DMZ
ORG
/. Uh but
Tim
PERSON
I think another reason for the face to face talks is that there 're
two
CARDINAL
issues that are separate from the
six
CARDINAL
party talks that are a serious grievance in our relationship /.
one is the fact that we have frozen financial assets of
the North Koreans
LOC
/. I believe rightly so /. but that is a separate bilateral issue /. The
second
ORDINAL
is our objection to dealing with
North Koreans
NORP
' request for a light water reactor Which I believe has bogged down the
six
CARDINAL
party talks /. Which by the way I believe you could have a separate bilateral face to face negotiation with
the United States
GPE
and also continue the efforts with the
six
CARDINAL
party talks because it is the
South Koreans
NORP
and the
Japanese
NORP
that are providing financial and fuel incentives /. So you ca n't cut them out /. but I think it 's essential to have face to *face private bilateral talks between
United States
GPE
and
North Korea
GPE
/. But in the end it 's a judgment of
North Korean
NORP
intentions /. You 'd been there
five
CARDINAL
times /. you know them /.
and yet
a few weeks
DATE
before the missile launch you said I do n't think they 're going to test /. And they did /. No
Tim
PERSON
I said I believe that they were going to test /. I did say that /. And what I sense in my negotiations in dealing with
North Koreans
NORP
/- You said as days go by I do n't believe they 're going to do it /. But early on I said that they did on
CBS
ORG
/. Uh my point is that when you deal with
North Korea
GPE
you 're not dealing with individuals like you and me /. Do n't believe in compromise /. they believe in their only way or the highway /.
Their view is that their cause is right /. and they 're going to wait you out /. So they 're totally unpredictable /. and I believe the only way to deal with them and we have shown that effectively in past dealings with
the Clinton Administration
ORG
is direct engagement To get them to curb their nuclear weapons as
Bob Gallucci
PERSON
did /. Secretary
Albright
PERSON
almost got a missile agreement /. Uh
Jimmy Carter
PERSON
got uh an agreement which was later violated regrettably with the father
Kim Jong - Il
PERSON
/. My point is that face to face discussions with
the United States
GPE
directly I believe is a precursor /. the continuation of the
six
CARDINAL
party talks is the best way to go /. But do they keep their word /? Here 's
Madeline Albright
PERSON
toasting
Kim Jong - Il
PERSON
in
North Korea
GPE
October
DATE
of
two thousand
DATE
/.
She appeared on this program
four years later
DATE
/. and this was our exchange /. But did n't
North Korea
GPE
develop a nuclear bomb on
Bill Clinton 's
PERSON
watch /? No what they were doing uh as it turns out , they were cheating /. and the reason that you have arms control agreements is that you do n't make them with your friends , you make them with your enemies /. and it is the process that is required to hold uh countries accountable /. Ambassador
Gallucci
PERSON
you negotiated that
ninety four
CARDINAL
agreement /. The
North Koreans
NORP
stopped processing in
one
CARDINAL
plant if you will /. but we later found out that at the same time they were making uranium in another plant /.
Not actually /. No that 's not what we found out /. What happened was we did do a deal /. We did stop a uh plutonium based pro-nuclear weapons program /. We made sure that
eight thousand
CARDINAL
fuel rods containing around
thirty kilograms
QUANTITY
enough for
five
CARDINAL
nuclear weapons worth of plutonium stayed in a storage pond /. And the deal would have had the
North Koreans
NORP
end their nuclear weapons program /. We think they started cheating in
the late nineties
DATE
by getting some gas centrifuge equipment from
Pakistan
GPE
/. We do n't know a lot about that where it is whether the equipment has been put together /. We think over a period of time they 'll do what the
Pakistanis
NORP
did , what the
Iranians
NORP
appear to be wanting to do and put together this gas centrifuge /. But they never got there yet /.
Or we do n't think they 've gotten there yet /. But they broke their word /. They absolutely cheated /. There 's no question about that /. But really you ought to be clear here what 's happened /. There was a nuclear weapons program that was stopped /. Plutonium production was stopped /. Right /. And afterwards tragically I believe that agreement which locked them up was allowed to collapse /. And we find ourselves now with the
North Koreans
NORP
accumulating plutonium a bomb 's worth
a year
DATE
/.
And freed up that plutonium that was um controlled for that period of time /. And they say they 've used it to make bombs /. we 'd have to estimate
about five
CARDINAL
more /. And with each passing day I would argue to you more important than that missile that
Ash
PERSON
would take out on the gantry if it turns up again with each passing day we 're going to find ourselves more and more closer than we were before to the day where that material could be transferred or sold to
Al - Queda Presenting
ORG
a threat far greater than the threat that is posed to us by nuclear weapons aboard ballistic missiles /. We can deter a country with ballistic missiles /. We know the return address /. We do /. But with a terrorist unconventional delivery your national missile defense will not be very good against
United Airlines
ORG
or
American Airlines
ORG
Or a bus or a truck /. And deterrents does n't work terribly well when an enemy values your death more than his life /. So no defense no deterrents /.
we need to lock up the nuclear program /. You would not care about the ballistic missile program if they did not have the nuclear weapons program /. But you can have all the agreements you want /. if they 're going to cheat what good are they /?
Madeline Albright
PERSON
essentially had it correct in my view /. You make a deal /. Nobody did that deal in
ninety four
DATE
thinking we were trusting
North Koreans
NORP
/. We had some transparency a measure of it /. and you verify /. We caught them cheating /.
You might make another deal /. I think you should /. You ask the question you make another deal are you better off with the deal /. or are you better off without it /? If the answer to the former is yes you do the deal /. You do n't +ask I think the simple question have they fooled us before /. then do n't let them fool us again /. I do n't believe that 's the way you proceed in international affairs /. It asks a very tough question about the national security /. should we do this /?
Is it better for us /? Ask for more transparency /. Insist on it /. Be tough in the negotiations Not in the formality of whether it 's
six
CARDINAL
parties or it 's bilateral /. Let me show you all
two
CARDINAL
presidents
Bill Clinton
PERSON
back in
nineteen ninety three
DATE
George Bush
PERSON
ten years later
DATE
talking to
the North Koreans
LOC
in effect /. And I 'm asking you to put your mind in place of a
North Korean
NORP
watching this /. President
Clinton
PERSON
President
Bush
PERSON
/.
North Korea
GPE
can not be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb /. We had to be very firm about it /.
We will not tolerate nuclear weapons in
North Korea
GPE
/.
Ash Carter
PERSON
both presidents making very firm resolved statements /. if you 're in
North Korean
NORP
watching that knowing that you now have the potential of building
eight
CARDINAL
nuclear bombs what are you thinking /? Well I 'm concerned that they 're thinking that we 're giving a new meaning to the word intolerable Because they keep doing things that we say are intolerable and then we tolerate them /. That 's why I think at some point you have to draw the line with
the North Koreans
LOC
/. I do think and here I agree with both of the other gentlemen you have on the show who have shown it 's possible to reach an agreement with
North Korea
GPE
and to get agreements that serve our interests The much maligned agreed framework as
Bob Galluci
PERSON
pointed out without that agreed framework
North Korea
GPE
by all the calculations of the experts would now have
fifty
CARDINAL
nuclear weapons /. So we were better off with the agreement than without it /. It is possible to reach agreement with the
North Koreans
NORP
But not when they see the kind of footage that you uh showed
Which
PERSON
is uh uh uh
Americans
NORP
drawing a line in the sand and then stepping back from that line And drawing a line in the sand and then stepping back /. I think our diplomacy has to have carrots in it but it has to stand somewhere /. and as I suggested earlier I think the missile tests are a good place to take a stand /.
Governor
Richardson
PERSON
draw a line in the stand and step back /. the
North Koreans
NORP
watch that /. they observe that /. they know what their own has been /. How do you have any strength in negotiating with people like that /?
The North Koreans
NORP
in my dealings with them they care more about form than they do substance /. In your earlier segment you showed president
Bush
PERSON
calling him a tyrant /. But then later he called him Mister
Kim Jong - Il
PERSON
/. I was in
North Korea
GPE
when that happened /. The
North Koreans
NORP
were delighted because they felt they 'd been treated with respect /.
They care deeply about protocol /. And this is another reason why I think for a relatively cheap price a face to face negotiation at the level of
Chris Hill
PERSON
who again is very competent I believe would set the stage for a final agreement at the
six
CARDINAL
party talks Which is essential Which is basically a good agreement /. In exchange for
North Korea
GPE
dismantling its nuclear weapons its missiles they get an armistice agreement where they are not attacked /. they get food fuel energy assistance /. Security assurances we will not topple their regime /. That 's right /. yeah that 's right /. that 's in that
September
DATE
agreement that
Chris Hill
PERSON
negotiated /. My point is if it 's just going to be a face to face meeting that serves as a precursor that also deals with this frozen assets issue which has directly hit the
North Korean
NORP
regime cause it controls the foreign expenditures of
Kim Jong - Il
PERSON
and you deal with this light water reactor especially now after we 've promised it to
Iran
GPE
and economic incentives to
Iran
GPE
I think the timing is right for this new stage of direct negotiation /. Ambassador
Galluci
PERSON
based on your experience do you believe the
North Koreans
NORP
would give up their nuclear program give up their nuclear bombs which they believe in their mind is an insurance policy against an
American
NORP
invasion for economic assistance light water reactors /?
At
the end of the day
DATE
I do n't know /. Um but that leaves me to conclude since I really do n't know that it 's a good idea to find out /. It 's a good idea it was in
nineteen ninety four
DATE
to do a deal with the
North
LOC
that required them to give up the program /. We did that /. and for
a period of years
DATE
we were in a position to monitor that closely /. and they did give it up /. Indeed you can make an argument that while the centrifuge program with the
Pakistanis
ORG
is clearly cheating was n't yet a genuine nuclear weapons program had n't produced anything and probably still has n't produced anything /. So you have the possibility if
the North Koreans
NORP
are thinking the way they may be thinking that they need one or the other , they need either nuclear weapons to deter
the United States
GPE
from regime change or they need a relationship with us that makes it unnecessary for them to have nuclear weapons /. The only way to find out whether they 'll ultimately give up those weapons is to do a deal /. We hear so much talk about
Kim Jong - Il
PERSON
tyrant spoiled child /.
others have said madman /. you 've been in that country
five
CARDINAL
times /. who is he /? What is he /? Well I 've never met him /. I met the number
two
CARDINAL
in command /. He is the entire nation /. he is basically a cult of personality /. He runs everything /. He knows everything that 's happening /.
All power flows through him /. Uh what that causes unfortunately is an isolated
North Korea
GPE
/. His people are in terrible shape economically /. I been there
five
CARDINAL
times /. I think I 've seen
one
CARDINAL
tractor /. I see people weak and drawn out /. they look like they need nourishment /. A lot of people are starving there /. They have human rights violations /. He is a mercurial character /.
But I think he 's crazy like a fox /. He is not somebody that is uh out of his mind /. he may be totally unpredictable isolated /. but he 's calculating /. and he 's used
the Fourth of July
EVENT
/. every time he feels he 's backed down he moves and does something irrational /. Uh he shoots missiles off /. he 's done it twice /. He cancels agreements /. he gets the nuclear inspectors out in
two thousand and two
DATE
/.
This is the way he operates /. And what we should do is take advantage of his vulnerability /. He also is vulnerable in the sense that the country is weak economically /. it desperately needs an elimination of sanctions /. they need food electricity /. He 's realistic too I believe /.
Bill Richardson Robert
PERSON
Gallucci Ashton Carter
PERSON
thank you all for a very sobering but important discussion /. Coming next , President
Bush
PERSON
celebrated his sixtieth birthday
this week
DATE
/. And
thirty one years ago
DATE
on
Meet The Press
ORG
then president
Gerald Ford
PERSON
talked about being sixty and serving as president /.
Coming up right here on
Meet The Press
ORG
/. And we 're back /.
Two
CARDINAL
presidential birthdays
this week
DATE
/. President
Bush
PERSON
turned
sixty last Thursday
DATE
/. And
this Friday
DATE
former president
Gerald Ford
PERSON
will be
ninety three years old
DATE
/. Our
thirty - eighth
CARDINAL
president talked about age health and the presidency right here
thirty one years ago
DATE
/. Mr. President in
the early days
DATE
of the republic the
American
NORP
people took great chances on young men in the presidency /. Now here we are looking at
seventy six
DATE
/. and most of the leading candidates are old geezers like me in
their sixties
DATE
/.
Now we seem to have misplaced a generation here somewhere /. is the system out of phase /. what explains this /? I think age is a state of mind and obviously a state of health /. I 'm in
the early sixties
DATE
/. I feel as vigorous mentally and physically as I ever have at any time in my life /. I do n't think you should rule a person out just because they 're my particular age /. The other hand I do n't think uh you should rule out a younger person who by experience or intelligence or overall capability is a potential candidate /. I do n't think you should categorize people just by age bracket /. I believe you ought to look at the person how strong he is mentally and physically what is his experience and what his background is /.
that 's the criteria I would use /. happy birthday President
Gerry Ford
PERSON
/. And also happy birthday to another
American
NORP
legend /.
thirty eight years ago
DATE
founded the special
Olympics
EVENT
/. She turns eighty five
tomorrow
DATE
/. And we 'll be right back /. For more information on
today
DATE
's guest and topic log onto the viewer resources page of our website MTP dot
MSNBC
ORG
dot com /. That 's all for
today
DATE
/. we 'll be back
next week
DATE
at our regular time /. If it 's
Sunday
DATE
it 's
Meet the Press
ORG
/.
So I work in that same beauty salon , I 'm chained to the old masquerade The lipstick , the shadow , the silicone : I follow my father 's trade -
Leonard Cohen
PERSON
Michael Jackson
PERSON
may be another example of a celebrity distraction which , upon examination , reveals more about our society 's mortal condition than a tabloid could imagine . Almost certainly more than it would dare to describe .
Yesterday
DATE
,
Jackson
PERSON
was ordered to close
Neverland
FAC
for having failed to pay the ranch 's
47
CARDINAL
employees their salary or insurance since
the end of 2005
DATE
. Unfortunate for the unpaid staff and the abandoned llamas but no surprise .
He 's moved on since his aquittal , like
Gary Glitter
PERSON
did after his
1999
DATE
conviction , having departed
last June
DATE
for a
Bahrain
GPE
" vacation " from which he 's yet to emerge . -LRB- " For the people working at
Bahrain
GPE
's malls , the person covered head to toe in a black veil , gloves and glasses appeared to be a rich , doting
Saudi
NORP
mother .... But why would a woman wear a man 's shoes ? Why the bodyguards ? And why did the person 's fluid movements seem so familiar ? " -RRB-
Last week 's
DATE
real
Jackson
PERSON
story ran in
the New York Daily News
ORG
, under the snappy banner "
Creepy
NORP
dad was root of all clan 's woe , singer sez . " The singer was brother
Jermaine
PERSON
, and the claims based on the projected outline for his abandoned " tell - all " family story . Reading that
Joseph
PERSON
was a nightmare of a father and sexually abusive towards his daughters is not exactly a " stop the presses " moment . What 's new is this : Jermaine even suggested his father may have set up
Michael
PERSON
to be somehow victimized by older men .
He tells how his father would have
Michael
PERSON
join in at
late - night
TIME
hotel room meetings with " important business people , " and wondered whether " something happened " to
Michael
PERSON
at those sessions . He said he sensed something was wrong because
Michael
PERSON
would be sick for
days
DATE
after . " What was
Joseph
PERSON
doing ? " Jermaine wrote . This lifts the
Jackson
PERSON
family horror show to a whole new order of dysfunction , one that sees parents network with power and trade their children for privilege . This should be a motif familiar to anyone acquainted with the literature of mind control and ritual abuse survivors : the father and
first
ORDINAL
controller , passing his child - victim up the social ladder of abuse in return for status , protection and reward . All that 's missing is the element of occult terror . Or maybe not : "
LaToya
PERSON
also described being awakened in
the night
TIME
by
Joseph
PERSON
wearing a ' monster mask . ' " Perhaps we can take more from this than the suspicion that the
Jackson
PERSON
clan had gotten with the program . Perhaps rather the point is that the program exploits pre-existing conditions for abuse which are more common than most suspect . -LRB- This is how I tend to think of
Ponchatoula
GPE
's
Hosanna Church
ORG
.
-RRB-
PERSON
Yet we should n't discount the suspicion , either , particularly given some of
Michael
PERSON
's paranormal interests and peculiar associations . His close friendship with
SPECTRA
ORG
contactee and channeller of the
Nine
CARDINAL
,
Uri Geller
PERSON
, for
one
CARDINAL
instance . -LRB-
Jackson
PERSON
was
Geller
PERSON
's best man in
2001
DATE
when he and his wife renewed his vows ,
the same year
DATE
Geller
PERSON
is said to have been reactivated as a psychic spy .
-RRB-
PERSON
His entourage including a " personal magician " for another . Even if you wanted to , you wo n't be reading
Jermaine
PERSON
's account now . Like every
Jackson
PERSON
sibling who 's tried to break from
Joe
PERSON
, he 's climbed down , returned to the fold and scrapped the book , apparently on the strength of
Michael
PERSON
's threats to sue . Previously ,
Michael
PERSON
's given cause for family observers to attribute his grotesque body dysmorphia to a dread of resembling his father . Yet there they were at
Jackson
PERSON
's trial
last year
DATE
, hand in hand . In the big picture
Michael Jackson
PERSON
means not very much . But his little picture may be more newsworthy than the news suggests .
good stuff . having departed
last June
DATE
for a
Bahrain
GPE
" vacation " from which he 's yet to emerge . Actually , there have been reports for
the past two days
DATE
of
Jackson
PERSON
back in
California
GPE
. #NAME ? Wild wild stuff
Jeff
PERSON
! Disinformation Distraction Dis and Dat .. The netwerk is as sacred to the state as their mantra " My way or total annihilation . " Bait and switch sets the agenda . There is no such thing as an accident . It 's
Saturday
DATE
morning
TIME
, and the papers say a moon of
Saturn
PRODUCT
is spewing life - giving water .... then I see the new
R.I.
ORG
post is about the perrenial child
Michael Jackson
PERSON
.
This day
DATE
is named for
Saturn
PERSON
... " ... it was foretold that
one day
DATE
a mighty son of
Saturn
PRODUCT
would in turn overthrow him , and
Saturn
PRODUCT
devoured all of his children when they were born to prevent this ... " Apparently
Saturn
PERSON
is also intimately connected with
Satan
LANGUAGE
,
Masonics
GPE
, and
Revelation 13
ORG
- you know , the " number of the beast " ... Nevermind - I need a cup of coffee ... I looked in vain for the
Cheney
PERSON
" A hunting we will go " to post this out and paste but ... And on the subject of cowardice , consider this . In a recent hunting escapade ,
Dick Cheney
PERSON
accidentally shot one of his hunting comrades . There may have been negligence involved , but that is up to the local district attorney to decide .
But more importantly , I think , is the nature of the hunt . These were not wild birds . The birds were bred in captivity . They had spent their lives in pens , and then on hunting day , were released for the sole purpose of being killed by
Dick Cheney
PERSON
and cohorts for pure sport as they flew into the open sky for their only moments of brief freedom . Whether you are an animal lover or not , there is something disgusting and degrading about this kind of hunt and something less than human about those who participate in it . The link " personal majician " is intrigueing . From
Madsen
PERSON
via
Boucher
PERSON
:
Jackson
PERSON
's stay at the
Cedars
FAC
was arranged through
David Kuo
PERSON
,
George W. Bush 's
PERSON
White House
ORG
director of
the Office of Faith
ORG
- based
Initiatives
GPE
.
Kuo
PERSON
, a former
CIA
ORG
employee ... had been Executive Director of
the Center for Effective Compassion
ORG
, founded in
1995
DATE
by
Arianna Huffington
PERSON
...
Kuo
PERSON
also previously worked for
the Christian Coalition
ORG
and Senator
John Ashcroft
PERSON
.
There 's also some curious
Neverland / Disneyland
FAC
connections to the "
Mickey Mouse Club
PERSON
" children who are now stars , including
Justin Timberlake -LRB-
PERSON
remember the star on
Janet Jackson 's
PERSON
breast ?
-RRB-
PERSON
and
Brittany Spears
PERSON
,
Christina Aguilera
PERSON
... The piper walks into the mountain , still followed by the children , and the cave closes again ... Here is
Boucher
PERSON
's follow up to the " majician " link of
Jeff
PERSON
's . on the mark as always ,
jeff
PERSON
, but i thought you might cover chile 's inauguration of its
first
ORDINAL
woman president
today
DATE
instead ... maybe later as the story develops ?
Jeff Boucher
PERSON
's piece mentions how victims of sexual abuse often have childlike voices , almost as if their development was ' frozen ' around the time of their abuse .
Jackson
PERSON
seems to be of this type . Or more perversely , fakes that he is : " I was always saying
-LSB-
GPE
to
Jackson
PERSON
-RSB- people would n't think I was so crazy if they saw who the hell you really are , that you sit around , and you drink and you curse and you 're -LSB- expletive -RSB- funny and you have a bad mouth , and you do n't have that high voice all the time " -
Lisa Marie Presley
PERSON
, in an interview quoted in a
WaPo
ORG
article written by
Tina Brown
PERSON
:
Michael Jackson 's
PERSON
False Front ? "
David Geffen
PERSON
, be gone !
Steven Spielberg
PERSON
, be gone ! " The witch doctor cursing
Michael Jackson
PERSON
's enemies and blessing the tarnished
King of Pop
ORG
himself in a voodoo ritual in
Switzerland
GPE
in
the summer of 2000
DATE
had promised that the
25
CARDINAL
people on
Jackson
PERSON
's enemies list -LRB- would soon be dead
-RRB-
PERSON
...
Jackson
PERSON
had ordered his then business adviser ,
Myung - Ho Lee
PERSON
, a
U.S.
GPE
- educated
Korean
NORP
lawyer based in
Seoul
GPE
, to wire $
150,000
MONEY
to a bank in
Mali
GPE
for a voodoo chief named
Baba
PERSON
, who then had
42
CARDINAL
cows ritually sacrificed for the ceremony .
Jackson
PERSON
had already undergone a blood bath ... The pop star , who is said to be
$ 240 million
MONEY
in debt , had paid
six
CARDINAL
figures for a ritual cleansing using sheep blood to another voodoo doctor and a mysterious
Egyptian
NORP
woman named
Samia
PERSON
, who came to him with a letter of greeting from a high - ranking
Saudi
NORP
prince , purportedly
Nawaf Bin Abdulaziz Al - Saud
PERSON
, now the chief of intelligence of
Saudi Arabia
GPE
...
http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/050411roco03c
ORG
hmm . According to that
Vanity Fair
ORG
article ,
Jacko
PERSON
and
Uri Geller
PERSON
met through " that other fellow devotee of children 's charities
Mohamed Fayed
PERSON
, the chairman of
Harrods
GPE
in
London
GPE
, who believes that the
C.I.A.
ORG
and Prince
Philip
PERSON
had Princess
Diana
PERSON
and his son , Dodi , killed . "
Anonymous quoted , "
Jackson
PERSON
's stay at the
Cedars
FAC
was arranged through
David Kuo
PERSON
... " Hold on -- the
Cedars
PRODUCT
is the headquarters of
the Fellowship Foundation
ORG
, the creepy
Christianoid
GPE
cult with deep political connections . Here 's a bit of the original
Madsen
ORG
article that the
Michael Jackson
PERSON
quote comes from : In
1976
DATE
, the
Fellowship
PERSON
began looking for a permanent headquarters in
Arlington
GPE
. It set its sights on the estate of
George Mason IV
PERSON
, The
Cedars
PRODUCT
, located at
2301
DATE
North Uhle Street
EVENT
.
Mason
PERSON
was one of the drafters of
the Bill of Rights
LAW
. The Fellowship , also known as
the International Foundation
ORG
, bought the property from
Charles Piluso
PERSON
. Although not much is known about
Piluso
NORP
,
the Los Angeles Times
ORG
reported that
Howard Hughes
PERSON
, the man with whom
Fellowship
ORG
Senator
Ralph Owen Brewster
PERSON
once sparred , also lived there . According to a senior
Pentagon
ORG
official , the
Cedars
FAC
had been used as a
CIA
ORG
safe house prior to the
Fellowship
ORG
's purchase of the estate .
The Fellowship paid
$ 1.5 million
MONEY
for the
Cedars
FAC
, the money coming from
Tom Phillips
PERSON
, the CEO of
Raytheon
ORG
, and
Ken Olsen
PERSON
, the CEO of
Digital Equipment Corporation
ORG
.
Sanford McDonnell
PERSON
of
McDonnell Douglas Corporation
ORG
was another deep - pocketed supporter of the Fellowship through Full Gospel Business Men 's Fellowship International , an activity linked to
Fellowship
ORG
core member
Pat Robertson
PERSON
. Suffer the little children , eh ? If this is what power & wealth does to you , I 'm damn glad I have neither . You said , " Perhaps rather the point is that the program exploits pre-existing conditions for abuse which are more common than most suspect . " Could n't agree more . I think that pedophilia 's relative commonality is what really makes it frightening . My experience happened when I was
15
CARDINAL
. A friend of mine met this guy who was twice our age & who was more than willing to buy us all the whiskey we could drink .
We were both enamored with
Kerouac & Jim Morrison & meeting
ORG
strange characters & this guy definitely fit the bill . He was muscle for a
Pittsburgh
GPE
madam named
Tex Gill
PERSON
. She dressed like a man & ran most of the massage parlors in
Pgh
PERSON
. He was into black magick
& Crowley & booze & drugs & on & on
ORG
. So ,
one night
TIME
, we 're at his apartment , drunk out of our minds , & my buddy passes out . I continue drinking . At
one
CARDINAL
point , I glance at this older guy , & he is staring at my buddy as a line of drool runs down the cigarette in his mouth & drips on to the floor . I think , ' What the fuck ? '
but I 'm pretty goddamn wasted & reality is having a helluva time penetrating the fog in my head . He notices that I 'm kind of staring at him . He stands up , walks into the bedroom , & comes back with a porno mag . He drops it on the couch next to me . As he 's sitting down , he says , " See anything you like ? " & then he shoves his hand hard into my groin ..... .... & I broke his nose with my elbow . Make no mistake though , up till that point , the guy scared the shit out of me . But , lucky for me , my reaction was see red anger instead of cowering fear .
After i hit him , I jumped up , ran into his kitchen & grabbed a big old butcher knife , ran back into the room & proceeded to kick my buddy into
consciousness & drag
ORG
his comatose ass the hell out of there . Now , for me , the interesting part happened years later . At the time , my buddy & I were selling things . My buddy had a real good supplier for these things but it was his secret . At
one
CARDINAL
point , my buddy could n't pick up the shipment so I had to go . Before I left , he had to explain to me that his supplier was none other than
Freddie Feelup
ORG
. I decided to go . He was now closer to
40 &
MONEY
just a hollow shell of his former self . Friendless , his only company being neighborhood teens looking to party . He kept
one
CARDINAL
room empty except for
4
CARDINAL
black candles in each of its corners .
he would read curses aimed at people who pissed him off . Really pathetic .
About a year later
DATE
, a few of those teens took an intense dislike to
Freddie &
ORG
the beat him to to death . I ca n't imagine why . Can you ? I apologize for continuing my ramble but ... , ... I do n't know how you folks would classify pedophilia . Maybe a
30 year old
DATE
man &
ORG
a
15 year old
DATE
boy does n't qualify . I wonder about that myself , but I have to say that when I was
30
DATE
, I was n't plying
15 year old
DATE
girls with booze & copping feels . I 'll shut up now .
Speaking of
Pat Robertson
PERSON
- I remembered something about him being linked with
Victor Bout
PERSON
and the UAE
two
CARDINAL
- step currently going on : Bout was
Liberian
NORP
dictator
Charles Taylor 's
PERSON
primary arms and diamond smuggler ...
Taylor
PERSON
, who is now in exile in
Nigeria
GPE
, was a business partner with
Christian Coalition
ORG
founder
Pat Robertson
PERSON
... in a
Cayman Islands
GPE
front company called
Freedom Gold , Ltd
ORG
. In fact ,
Freedom Gold
ORG
was headquartered at
Robertson
PERSON
's CBN offices in
Virginia Beach
GPE
,
Virginia
GPE
.
Robertson
PERSON
's
African
NORP
interests also crossed paths with
Bout
ORG
's in another country -- the former
Zaire
GPE
.
Robertson
PERSON
's
African Development Company
ORG
used the cover of
Robertson
PERSON
's tax - exempt "
Operation Blessing
EVENT
" to ferry conflict diamonds out of civil war - ravaged
Zaire
GPE
-LRB- now
Congo
GPE
-RRB-
PERSON
.
One
CARDINAL
of
Bout
ORG
's many assets is
New Millennium Air Company of Gambia
ORG
. The Director of this firm is
" Baba Jobe "
WORK_OF_ART
. -LRB- hmmm -
" Baba " ...
-RRB- http://www.analystnewspaper.com/ameu_scam_feb21.html
PERSON
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ http://www.globalpolicy.org/intljustice/wanted/2005/1212ties.htm My question is , when is a victim guilty of abuse ?
Jackson
PERSON
is definitely a mind - control ,
SRA
ORG
victim . He 's programmed . Neverland sounds like a cryptic command from MKULTRA
Wizard of Oz
ORG
programming . The bizarre from black - to - white and physical transformation must be the result of biotech advances . If he does abuse ' his ' children , is he ' guilty ' as such if he is programmed ?
I suspect he is a brilliant cover or red - herring used as a shield by very powerful forces , responsible for God - knows - what at his now - abandoned ranch . It 's very effective , as many ' feel ' that whilst
MJ
PERSON
is naive he 's not capable of the evil associated with pedophile activity . This may not be the case , as the public ' persona ' is merely an ' alter ' personality and he may have many other ' personalities ' which are dark . Then comes the question whether his programmers were programmed themselves . If so , then they are all guilty of such abuse , whilst being innocent at the same time ! As most abuse is generational , the whole mind - control subject really has to be brought out in the open . The very technology and tools used on the mind which harm can then be used to heal .
Brr
PERSON
, Pied Piper . I remember being spooked by that story as a kid .
Heck of a story to tell children . Talking about strange coincidences ... I was trying to write a science fiction story a while back involving
Star Gate
ORG
type research . I was looking for a cool name for an undercover X-Files type military - occult agency . Thought of ' SPECTRE ' but that seemed too
James Bondish
PERSON
, and modified it to ' SPECTRA ' . Thinking rainbow - type symbology . Then I find out that ' SPECTRA ' is actually a name with significance in the community . What the ... ... of course , I did read a lot of weird stuff in passing as a kid , it 's certainly possible that I came across it and forgot . I was n't consciously aware of it , certainly .
It 's the most disappointingly *cheesy*
1960s
DATE
sci - fi kind of name for an astral entity to use , that 's for sure . I never did write that story . Is n't
Michael Jackson
PERSON
, and the entire
Jackson
PERSON
clan ,
Jehovah
PERSON
's
Witness
PRODUCT
? There was no mention made of this in either the main post or comments .... It would seem to me that their must be some relationship between that cult organization and all the " high weirdness " going on .... no ? .... and it is a cult .
FBI
ORG
finally releases report on missing children . Agency unveils surprising statistics :
about one - third
CARDINAL
of lost kids are black --
AP
ORG
Since
1985
DATE
nearly 13 million
CARDINAL
children missing -LRB- those reported
-RRB-
PERSON
. An average of
615,874
CARDINAL
per year since
1985
DATE
.
791,687
CARDINAL
in
1995
DATE
alone . This is an extraordinary group here . I appreciate your candor and your capacity to build a knowledge base with each contributor adding to the thread that moves me in a sonambulant noiseless rush toward the truth . We are living the dieing and that is just as productive and rewarding as any other dimension of spirit that I have experienced If there is just one thing that disappoints me it is that all of the posters here prefer to be anonymous . It would be wise for you to " be " yourself . I tried to find emails for any that list a profile or website , but none " NONE " of you are out there .
Contact me at my profile email should you care to disclose yourself . I would like to invite you to participate in
FSHOD
ORG
if that is not too much to ask . maybe we remain anonymous in preparation for the future . I 'm surprised I have n't heard this mentioned anywhere before , as it ties in perfectly with
Jeff
PERSON
's Bizarro Jacko Tabloid post : In an interview with
Blender
ORG
-LRB- ca n't remember what issue , but
Janet
PERSON
's on the cover
-RRB-
PERSON
,
Janet
PERSON
talks at length about having mulitiple personalities . I ca n't remember all the details , but there 's
Janet
PERSON
, the normal pop star , and among others -LRB- and perhaps the most notable in this context
-RRB-
PERSON
one she calls "
Strawberry
PERSON
, " who is geared towards explicit sexual activities . As I understand , this is a classic alters description . A Real MAN Would At Least Let A Former Board Member Be Able TO READ The Reason He Had Been Banned , But , I FORGOT I Was Dealing With A Coward ! antiaristo will be disappointed , or HAS HE ALREADY BEEN BANNED ,
TOO
ORG
??? A COWARD DIES A
THOUSAND
CARDINAL
DEATHS . A HERO DIES BUT ONCE !!!!!!!!
Saint Alexander
PERSON
the
Foolish
PERSON
, circa Third Millennium , a.D .
Janet Jackson
PERSON
; "
Strawberry Bounce
PERSON
" lyrics : Bump the beat Just watch the way I pump it The way I work it 's gon na keep you cumin' Do a dance that 's so sensual I 'ma make you Lose Control Do n't trip You know you wan na watch this I 'm a pro you wo n't be disappointed
Gon na leave you beggin' for more I 'ma make you Lose Control Glad someone finally mentioned
Janet
PERSON
. I think the practice of black magic is something she and her brother have in common .
One
CARDINAL
mus n't forget her now infamous superbowl " nipple " stunt . Rather than the ridiculous accident censors tried to make it out to be , I think it has to be recognized as a planned , purposeful piece of black magic , perpetraited literally in front of the world , on a very alchemically significant day and time -LRB- goes way beyond a ' publicity stunt , does n't it ? ' -RRB- A friend even suggests that during her much earlier ' Rythm Nation ' period , in which she dons a black uniform and uses strange , synchopated hand movements in her video dance routine , that that too , is a kind of twilight language , intended on sending a specific message , in order to have a desired effect . It 's possible that jacksons have been using the occult arts for a long , long time . I 'd love to hear someone else 's thoughts on this -
Here 's a link to just a wee bit more about
Jackson
PERSON
and her alleged MPD - http://dave.typepad.com/dave/2004/06/janet_jacksons_.html I posted above that The
Cedars
PRODUCT
, where
Michael Jackson
PERSON
was mentioned as having stayed for a time , was the center of
the Fellowship Foundation
ORG
. I just ran across
the Fellowship Foundation
ORG
again , when looking for something to explain the anomalous situation of recently - disgraced
Republican
NORP
shoplifter
Claude A. Allen
PERSON
. The quote below is from the
LaRouchies
ORG
-- and thus , as always , not to be considered
100 %
PERCENT
reliable -- but in this case it fits in so well with the ongoing discussion that I 'm tentatively inclined to trust it :
DeLay
PERSON
's career and power became at the same time a central project for
all three
CARDINAL
of the shadow partners ,
Grover Norquist
PERSON
,
Jack Abramoff
PERSON
and
Ralph Reed
PERSON
.
DeLay
PERSON
was by no means a random point of interest .
Tom DeLay
PERSON
staggered into
Washington
GPE
as a freshman Congressman in
1984
DATE
, a terrible drunk , his life dissolving .
Rep.
Frank Wolf
PERSON
-LRB- R - Va.
-RRB-
PERSON
approached him with a road to salvation . He reportedly showed
DeLay
PERSON
a videotape that made him weep .
Tom DeLay
PERSON
then radically changed his life , turning his soul over to higher powers . But by all reliable accounts ,
DeLay
PERSON
became a much nastier , a fearsomely
un-Christian
NORP
individual .
Frank Wolf
PERSON
represented an old " black operations " soul - robbing agency known as
the Fellowship Foundation
ORG
. Practicing secrecy on about the same level as
the National Security Agency
ORG
, the
Fellowship
ORG
does conduct one public function -- it runs the huge annual
Congressional / Presidential Prayer Breakfast
ORG
in
Washington
GPE
, with similar events managed inside the
Pentagon
ORG
and at other government and military sites .
The Fellowship Foundation
ORG
-LRB- earlier called
International Christian Leadership
ORG
and a succession of cover names
-RRB-
PERSON
was created before
World War II
EVENT
by the organization of the
pro-Nazi
NORP
Frank Buchman
PERSON
. Sen.
H. Alexander Smith -LRB-
PERSON
R - N.J. -RRB- ,
Buchman
PERSON
's lieutenant who in
1940
DATE
had called for a joint world dictatorship of
the United States
GPE
,
Britain
GPE
, and
Nazi Germany
GPE
, brought the Fellowship into acceptance in
Washington
GPE
. In
the 1950s
DATE
, the group was sponsored by former
Nazi
NORP
SS officer ,
Holland
GPE
's
Prince Bernhard
GPE
, and the
Dutch
NORP
royal family .
The
Fellowship
ORG
runs a house near the
U.S.
GPE
Capitol
FAC
, where Congressmen and Senators , who are members , live . For example , Sen.
Sam Brownback -LRB-
PERSON
R - Kans. -RRB- , the delirious
End - Timer
ORG
, has lived in the cult 's house in
Washington
GPE
. Raytheon CEO
Tom Phillips
PERSON
and other figures in the military - industrial complex , pay the bills . The Fellowship specializes in taking over the lives of potentially powerful individuals who have become somehow ruined , and promising them dominion in the world if they will play along .
Watergate
EVENT
dirty - trickster
Charles Colson
PERSON
, when he was on his way to prison and suddenly powerless , was recruited , and turned his life over to the
Fellowship
PERSON
.
Colson
PERSON
's Prison Fellowship Ministries is a subordinate unit of the cult , with its tentacles in most prisons in
the United States
GPE
. After
Tom DeLay
PERSON
was zapped ,
Charles Colson
PERSON
became
DeLay
PERSON
's personal guru .
Colson
PERSON
's militancy for
the End - Times
ORG
war on
Muslims
NORP
has made him a congenial companion to
Jack Abramoff
PERSON
in their keeping of
DeLay -- Abramoff
ORG
has repeatedly led
Tom
PERSON
to
Israel
GPE
to call for all - out war against the
Arabs
NORP
. And
Christian Coalition
ORG
co-founder
Pat Robertson
PERSON
was himself a product of the
Fellowship
ORG
magic .
Robertson
PERSON
was the good - for - nothing playboy son of Sen.
A. Willis Robertson
PERSON
-LRB- R - Va.
-RRB-
PERSON
, the chairman of
the Senate Finance Committee
ORG
.
Pat
PERSON
began speaking in tongues and uttering prophecies under the guidance of
Harald Bredesen
PERSON
, a master training agent of the
Fellowship
ORG
group , who had proved himself to the highest circles of
British
NORP
intelligence .
Pat Robertson
PERSON
started off as assistant pastor to
Bredesen
PERSON
, whose intelligence partners ,
the Full Gospel Businessmen 's Fellowship
ORG
, raised the money to expand
Robertson
PERSON
's and
Bredesen
PERSON
's
Virginia
GPE
- based
Christian Broadcasting Network
ORG
-LRB- CBN -RRB- toward global power status . The sentence I put in boldface is *extremely* interesting . Was n't there a
Michael Jackson
PERSON
video where he was envisioning himself as ruler of the world or some such ? to anonymous
9:30
TIME
re cults : " The reason fear can arise so strongly is that you already have a very strong experience of being brainwashed and used in cultish behavior . This cult is called society and its ' cult - ure ' gives rise to suffering . If you look closely , everything that is associated with cult behavior can lisewise be found in society 's behavior . The same means of control are used : the constant reinforcement that you are helpless without society , that you can not survive without obeying its rules and that you will go to hell if you do n't obey the tenets of its religion . " -- Gangaji
this site monitors
Janet Jackson
PERSON
weight ! http://www.egotastic.com/entertainment/celebrities/janet-jackson/janet-jackson-is-too-fat-to-sing Anonymous One , I recall reading somewhere that
Lisa Marie
PERSON
was a member of
L.Ron
PERSON
's cult . You will notice that
Michael
PERSON
's real troubles started after he suied
Sony
ORG
chief
Tommy Mattola
PERSON
, who was heard to say " he 'll live to regret the day " . Do n't ever think of fucken with the evil bastards in the Music biz , later . Here 's a description of that
Michael Jackson
PERSON
item I was remembering : By the time the release of
1995
DATE
's HIStory album -- a double album of greatest hits and new tracks -- approached ,
Michael
PERSON
had fully realized a new perception of himself , one that was truly larger than life . HIStory was hyped with a
four - minute
TIME
teaser video . This extravagant production begins with a colossal army goose - stepping through a
European
NORP
city in crisp , tan uniforms , waving red flags and sporting red - and - black insignias . Military music pounds .
Crowds swell at the sidelines , screaming and crying . The implication seems to be these men represent
Nazis
NORP
. But then , their leader is revealed to be
Michael
PERSON
, marching right up front . When peasant workers break free to touch
Michael
PERSON
, they are immediately swallowed by soldiers . Suddenly , it is night , and a tarp - covered , skyscraper - sized structure looms over the poor nation as choppers spray spotlights across it . Brainwashed fans scream , salute with
one
CARDINAL
arm and light candles with religious zeal . Signs proclaiming
" King of Pop
WORK_OF_ART
, " a title
Michael
PERSON
disavowed to
Oprah
PERSON
only two years earlier
DATE
, are everywhere , emphasizing the word " King . " Finally , the tarp drops , and it is , of course , a gargantuan , bronze statue of
Michael
PERSON
, fists clenched defiantly , his star insignia prominent , yet his face still somehow child - like and unthreatening . The video is a highly disturbing piece of work .
His bloated sense of importance is not only chilling , it is threatening . Suddenly ,
Michael
PERSON
's perfect world of Oz / Neverland is forced to be compared with an Aryan Nation , one that substitutes children for
Hitler
PERSON
's master race . Large image of the
Michael Jackson HIStory
PERSON
statue . There is some sort of an emblem with a star on his shoulder , but it 's at an angle and not easy to make out clearly . " ... a haughty spirit goeth before a fall . " BTW - and off topic : Check out this superb psyop image .
Jeff
PERSON
, I do n't think even you could do better than this : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11800917/ Remember who
Janet
PERSON
shared the stage with at the
Superbowl
GPE
?
Yes , you remember correctly : former
Mousketeer Justin Timberlake
PERSON
. Hmmm . The plot thickens . JW's and child abuse . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/live_forums/2124808.stm BTW
Jeff
PERSON
- I 'd caught the
Geller
PERSON
/
Jackson
PERSON
connection a while back and posted on the discussion board . Fascinating how this all seems to be inter-related . hmmm ... in
March 2003
DATE
Jackson
PERSON
distraction - o - mania was part of the media smokescreen that led up
the Iraq war
EVENT
... and now
Fox
ORG
news and other rabid - right media outlets have once again taken to whipping on
Jackson
PERSON
...
-LRB- like any sane people really care about what the hell MJ is doing any more . -RRB- A signs of another impending misadventure in the
mideast
LOC
? And what 's with
Uri Geller 's
PERSON
links to
MJ
PERSON
? Anyone else smell a whiff of that whole
Prophet Yahweh
FAC
sideshow from awhile back ? trivial , but here 's stargods ' comprehensive analysis of jacko : regarding the JW reference . I do n't think we need see a plot in every wood pile . The JW considers itself THE kingdom of God on earth . -LRB- '
Kindom Hall '
PERSON
-RRB- So it is only to be expected that they do not see a reason to run to and report everything to the government . The same goes for
the Roman Catholic Church
ORG
.
But the
RCC
ORG
has had a widespread problem with this regard , doubltlessly because their policy / doctrine of a celibate priesthood simply attracts these deviants . I doubt any such problem exist on the same proportionate scale in the JW heirarchy . Besides that , ca n't you see the embedded mind control in that article , as well as all general media output . The Message Is : " Big Brother must be informed ! Only Big Brother can manage society ! " See , it 's the
Hegelian
NORP
dialectic at work . Eveyone needs to sharpen their awareness of this shit . As long as Big Brother is the answer for everything , Big Brother will BE everything . -LRB- If people do n't want their kids pederastized , but yet they entrust them to ' guys in gowns ' I just wonder what the hell are they thinking anyway ? -RRB- I 'd watch the
Peter Pan
PERSON
speculations , unless you know what versions you are discussing and can differentiate between them accurately .
Some of the assumptions I 've seen -LRB- such as a couple made by
Tim Boucher
PERSON
and
Fantastic Planet
LOC
in
last year 's
DATE
postings linked here
-RRB-
PERSON
may have looked like they worked to support their thesis , but in actuality have either a tenuous or no connection to the core
Peter Pan
PERSON
mythos . Do n't make up things like
Peter
PERSON
abducting children that you ca n't substantiate .
Peter Pan
PERSON
was a work in progress for
JM Barrie
PERSON
, who kept tinkering with it over
the years
DATE
. To understand what it actually means to
Michael Jackson
PERSON
and what you might speculate he is enacting , you have to know where on the continuum of
Peter Pans
PERSON
his internalized
Peter
PERSON
-LRB- no , not THAT kind of
peter -RRB-
PERSON
lies . Novel , play ? Musical , cartoon ? Shadow of a shadow of a remembered story ? In
one
CARDINAL
of the oldest versions ,
Peter Pan
PERSON
in
Kensington Gardens -LRB-
LOC
extracted from
The Little White Bird -RRB-
ORG
, is
only a week old
DATE
. He escaped from his home when he was
seven days old
DATE
because he remembered how he could fly when he was a bird before he was a human , and that wildness is still in him , as it is with all children .
Barrie
PERSON
's only cryptic instructions on character development to
Nina Boucicault
PERSON
, the
first
ORDINAL
actress to play
Peter
PERSON
, was that she was to remember that
Peter
PERSON
is a bird , and is
one day old
DATE
. In
Kensington Gardens
LOC
he watches out for children who have fallen un-noticed out of their perambulators . If a bad fairy finds them , or they perish from the cold an dark
overnight
TIME
in the park ,
Peter
PERSON
digs them graves and makes them headstones . In
Peter
PERSON
and
Wendy
PERSON
, the Lost Boys are the ones who fall out of their perambulators when their nurse is not looking . If they are not claimed in
seven days
DATE
, " they are sent far away to the
Neverland
FAC
to defray expenses . " A far cry from the stealing of children .
Peter
PERSON
and the Lost Boys crave a mother to tell them stories . It 's ironic that while their own lives are far more exotic than the fairy tales
Wendy
PERSON
tells , it 's those fictions that they want , told by a mother .
Barrie
PERSON
says quite explicitly in
Peter
PERSON
and
Wendy
PERSON
that it is
Wendy
PERSON
who does the tempting to keep
Peter
PERSON
with her , not the other way around .
It is she who asks if
Michael
PERSON
and
John
PERSON
could come too . If those of you with the abduction theory would like to give specific quotes and information on where it is shown that
Peter
PERSON
abducted the children , please do . But I think you are making it up from a version that does n't exist in reality , or that ca n't be tied to
Michael Jackson
PERSON
. We do n't gain better understanding of the inner workings of
Michael Jackson
PERSON
by distorting the material on which we purportedly base our theories .
Jeff
PERSON
- I just have to say that I love the Rigorous Intuition Live365 channel . I 've been listening to it to the last couple of days and just bought
Dylan 's ' Oh Mercy '
ORG
. How does the copyright thing work on a Live365 stream ?
Avalon
ORG
, can you recommend a good work of commentary and analysis on
JM Barrie 's
PERSON
works ? - Sepka the Space Weasel Was
Michael Jackson
PERSON
influenced by
Bob Fosse 's
PERSON
" Snake in the grass " character from the
1974
DATE
movie
The Little Prince
LOC
?
Has anyone else seen this scene ?
Bob Fosse
PERSON
's snake looks and moves would be imitated -LRB- and made more popular -RRB- years later by
the King of Pop
ORG
,
Michael Jackson
PERSON
. View the video here :
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L8mJsgPj1iU
PRODUCT
About the JW thing , I work with a couple of them -LRB- BTW , some of the most respectable people I know . Which is why I decided to ask ...
-RRB-
PERSON
, and I had a chance to ask them about
MJ
PERSON
and the child abuse , if they knew anything . About MJ they said , he is definately not a JW , despite what he says . Provocative lyrics and grabbing ones crotch in public , does n't fit with their defination of '
Christian
NORP
' . They said all they knew was that his mother -LRB- who apparently is still a member
-RRB-
PERSON
took him to their church as a kid . The father apparently had little or no involvement at all .
As for the child abuse , I have to agree with the post above , you can find abuse and ' sick ' individuals in ANY organization , but you have too look at the proportion to the rest of society .
One
CARDINAL
of my friends is an ' elder ' -LRB- soething like a ' local church leader '
-RRB-
PERSON
, but he also said their instructions say that if they hear of any abuse they are to follow local laws , which usually requires them to inform the police ASAP . And if the abuse is at all serious to report it to the police regardless . Though i do n't agree with all of their beliefs , I know these guys well enough to call them friends . So in their respect , after reading some of the other comments , I decided to listen to their side before passing judgement . We should ALL be careful not to pass judgement on ENTIRE groups of people based on the apparent actions of a few . That is what
Hitler
PERSON
tried to do . With thiking like that , even if we got rid of the evil elite , a new set of ' evil elite ' would rise again in their place .
That seems to be the nature of man , though . We have all got to do what we can without needlessly attacking the innocent . Remember , group hatred only plays into their hands , be it racial , religious , or class . Sepka , the
two
CARDINAL
reference books I have on
Peter Pan
PERSON
are :
Fifty Years
DATE
of
Peter Pan
PERSON
,
Roger Lancelyn Green
PERSON
, pub. by
Peter Davies
PERSON
,
London
GPE
,
1954
DATE
. It 's pretty scarce at this point , though you might be able to find a copy to read through inter-library loan . The Peter Pan Chronicles ,
Bruce K. Hanson
PERSON
,
Birch Lane Press
ORG
,
NY
ORG
,
1993
DATE
I have n't really delved into
Barrie
ORG
's psyche from the biographical end , it 's
Peter
PERSON
and
Wendy
PERSON
as an extraordinary piece of writing that has always fascinated me . ... and if you listen to " My Way " by sinatra , backwards , the real answer will be revealed .
http://stargods.org/MasonicMichaelJackson.htm
GPE
Uri Geller
PERSON
was one of
MJ
PERSON
's handlers apparently .
The wave of continuous rain
last week
DATE
led to the collapse of the roof of
the Fourth Aramco Primary School for Girls
ORG
in low income .. Fortunately , the school had no students in it during the collapse . The students did not take the
monthly
DATE
exam at the time , while the administration offered a
one - day
DATE
vacation to allow for a search for another school . The students were transferred to a governmental school until
the Aramco School
ORG
could be repaired . The student "
L. H. "
PERSON
says , " The situation is totally different . We study in the prayer area of the governmental school , and we have been merged with
two
CARDINAL
other classes . " The funniest thing about this issue is that they converted the small storage room into a cafeteria . The student " M. M. " says , " I hope we can go back to our school again , and that the roof wo n't fall on us again . " On the other hand , teacher " M. A. " says , " The school principal was devastated .
She burst into tears and could not do anything . " A source at
Girls ' Education
ORG
in
Al Quataif
LOC
said the collapse resulted from rainwater accumulation . It is worth mentioning that there has been a total media blackout by related authorities . Many confusing questions have been taxing my mind for
years
DATE
about
Egypt
GPE
and its people . Are they really as miserable as we see them , or are our eyes deceiving us ? Are the horrible statistics we read on the unemployment rates and the dangerous diseases that consume the liver , kidneys , and the entire body of the
Egyptian
NORP
real , or a fabrication of the nice governor ? Is the waste of
Egypt
GPE
's wealth from
the seventies
DATE
until
today
DATE
a reality , or an illusion ? How did
Egypt
GPE
's production of long - fiber cotton , the best in the world , drop from
12 million tons
QUANTITY
to just
four tons
QUANTITY
? How was almost all the public sector sold , and where is its price ?
How did the
Egyptian
NORP
become the cheapest human being on the surface of the earth ? Is this reasonable ? Can we believe all this and believe at the same time that the people are still silent ? What are these
Egyptian
NORP
people ? How are they ? How do they think ? Why are they silent ? Are they that cowardly ? I do not stray far from the truth if I say that I have read a lot in sociology , from the Introduction of its founder ,
Ibn Khaldoun
PERSON
, passing by
Gamal Hemdan
PERSON
-LRB- the best man to describe
Egypt
GPE
lately
-RRB-
PERSON
, to the last student in the sociology department - the university of the poor , who are injured with knives and sticks and surrounded by the gangs of national sadness . Not all that has been written of course , but what concerns us in guarded
Egypt
GPE
-LRB- I do not know where this guarding is ?!
-RRB-
PERSON
, because I want to understand the
Egyptian
NORP
personality , and why it is silent in spite of all its suffering from injustice , suppression , starvation , and humiliation , and , of course , all this was accompanied by stops at our ancient and modern history .
Today
DATE
I watched the news promoted by the
American
NORP
,
Zionist
NORP
, and
Arab
NORP
-LRB- Zionistic -RRB- media about the meetings currently being held between the
American
NORP
agents in
Jordan
GPE
,
Saudi Arabia
GPE
,
Iran
GPE
, and
Egypt
GPE
. Except for
Sheikh al - Dari
PERSON
, the people that appeared at the meetings with them were mostly agents of the occupier who came with him , using them to slaughter our people and families . A number of them did not visit
Iraq
GPE
since their contract with the
American
NORP
intelligence service expired after the criminal
Allawi
PERSON
fled
two years ago
DATE
in the wake of his failure to achieve victory over the
Iranian
NORP
agents . As for
Sheikh al - Dari
PERSON
... the issuing of a warrant for his arrest was an important part of the game to keep him outside
Iraq
GPE
to facilitate contacting him -LRB- by coersion
-RRB-
PERSON
and with not many options . But
Sheikh al - Dari
PERSON
will not swallow the bait easily .. He is aware of what is being plotted .. and that
Bush
PERSON
has not yet lost hope in the possibility of winning a political round which would prolong the life of his troops in
Iraq
GPE
.. Therefore it is the duty of
Sheikh al - Dari
PERSON
to present the conditions of resistance - victorious with God 's permission - because it is what will forge victory with the blood and lives of its youth and people . Since the outbreak of
the Iranian Revolution in the year 1979
EVENT
and the overthrow of the
Shah
ORG
's regime , and in spite of the power he enjoyed and the privilege he had with the
US
GPE
and
Western
NORP
countries , and in spite of the presence of the strongest intelligence service in the region -LRB- the SAVAK Agency -RRB- , the
Iranian
NORP
public was able to overthrow the government through the leadership of the Mullahs -LRB- religious men
-RRB-
PERSON
without action from the super powers which had supported the
Shah
ORG
's regime .
This raises many questions . At the same time that the Mullahs came to power in
Iran
GPE
, another revolution erupted , but with a different course . It took place in
Afghanistan
GPE
in
1979
DATE
under the leadership of a few people led by the Engineer Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and
Sheikh Abdul Rabb
PERSON
Rasoul Sayyaf . But the general course of jihad and the influx of mujahideen in large numbers started in
1986
DATE
after the heroic
Ansar
PERSON
battle in
Jagi
PERSON
. While the
Arab
NORP
and
Western
NORP
governments were busy with the issue of repelling
Soviet
NORP
occupation and communist encroachment , and with the war between
Iraq
GPE
and
Iran
GPE
, many overlooked a new development that was emerging on the ground , namely the orientation of
Shiites
NORP
in the
Gulf
LOC
region towards arms training in
Iran
GPE
, with
the Revolutionary Guards
ORG
at the time of the
Iraqi
NORP
- Iranian war , as well as in
Lebanon
GPE
, with
Hezbollah
ORG
-LRB- in the nineties
-RRB-
PERSON
. However , the general orientation of the
Shiites
NORP
towards regular and intensive training actually started in
the early nineties
DATE
. Recently published
Saudi
NORP
studies warned that
kohl
PERSON
is harmful to women 's eyes and can lead to loss of sight , especially the types common in
Arab
NORP
and
Gulf
LOC
countries because they contain high levels of lead . Protecting the eyes against blindness begins with measures to look after the eyes , from regular eye tests by a specialist doctor , to knowing the necessary precautions to avoid eye injuries and
first
ORDINAL
aid methods should an injury occur and the importance of not applying the
kohl
PERSON
commonly used in the
Kingdom
GPE
and also not to apply any other folk remedies on the eyes . With regard to
kohl
PERSON
and its effect on the eyes , doctors at
King Faisal Specialist Hospital
ORG
have found that the percentage of lead in random samples of
kohl
PERSON
of the kind sold at perfumeries and available in shops , especially
Indian
NORP
brands , is
between 85 percent
PERCENT
and
100 percent
PERCENT
per gram of
kohl
PERSON
.
Doctors explained that this percentage of lead is harmful for the eyes , especially in children after it was found that there is a link between using
kohl
PERSON
and lead poisoning in children , and the brain disorders it causes because children 's eyes can not produce tears to wash external pollutants out of the eyes . This can cause acute eye infections . They indicated that disorders such as these lead to a
25 %
PERCENT
increase in the death rate in children . Specialists warned against the false but commonly held belief that
kohl
PERSON
improves vision , increases the thickness and strength of eyelashes and makes the eyebrows thicker . They recommended using
kohl
PERSON
pencils which are sold in pharmacies , because they contain carbon and iron , both of which do not affects the eye and its health . Something Even More Absurd Than the " Breakneck 90 M/H On a Snowy Night " ?? My Personal Experience . poqi Poster :
poqi
PERSON
-LRB- poqi
-RRB-
PERSON
, Area : Automobile . Title : Something Even More Absurd Than the " Breakneck 90 M/H On a Snowy Night " ?? My Personal Experience .
Originating site : BBS Unknown Space -LRB- Tue Jan 16
22:51:46
TIME
2007
DATE
-RRB-
PERSON
. I have deep feelings and a lot of sympathy with the author after reading the article
Breakneck
PERSON
90 m/h on a Snowy Night . It also reminds me of something that I experienced
several years ago
DATE
, also related to an airport and meeting people .
A couple of years ago
DATE
, my neighbor approached me to borrow my car , saying he was meeting his parents at the airport . He also said both his wife and children wanted to go . As his car was too small and mine was big , it could make his parents more comfortable . He added that he would only use it for
one morning
TIME
and would return it to me
before noon
TIME
. Although there was only a nodding acquaintance between the neighbor and me , we lived in the same apartment building after all and were both
Chinese
NORP
. So I discussed with my wife back home and lent him the car as we thought we would not be using the car until
the same afternoon
TIME
. And then something happened ...
At
1:00pm
CARDINAL
, the neighbor called me , saying he took his parents to a buffet and would probably not to be back until around 3:00pm . I of course agreed and asked them not to rush . This wait lasted till 5:30pm , when the neighbor told me in a
half
CARDINAL
- crying tone that there was an accident , and everyone else was intact , except his father , who was in hospital for fractures . I comforted him
first
ORDINAL
and asked my friend to rush me to the hospital . My neighbor showed me the police report at the hospital , which indicated it was all my neighbor 's fault . He clashed into a truck going straight when he made a left turn . My car was completely damaged and had been towed away . I forced myself to refrain from the grief of loosing my beloved car -LRB- mine was liability - only coverage
-RRB-
PERSON
and asked the friend to send their family home . And then the nightmare began .
The next day
DATE
, my neighbor called me , saying his father needed to undergo an operation in hospital and asked where the money would come from
I told him part would be covered by my car insurance . After a while , he called again , saying the operation charge was high and it was difficult for them to afford I tried my best to comfort him then and told him to think of a way slowly Just then , a nearly crazy voice of a woman came from the other end of the line , saying her family had just saved
several dozen thousand
CARDINAL
bucks for the down payment of a house ; where would they live afterwards if they spent this . She also said my car was a
Japanese
NORP
one , which had poor safety performance and it was my car to blame for the car accident . She added that I should pay the money because the car was mine . I hung up the phone angrily as the dialog could not go on . My wife -LSB- pw% -RSB- had been persuading me aside , saying some women would easily lose mind once in fury . She asked me to take no heed of them and let them calm down
first
ORDINAL
. So I did n't take their words seriously but still felt angry .
Out of my expectation , a phone call on
the third day
DATE
completely changed my original idea . The telephone rang just as I was about to go to work in
the morning
TIME
. I thought it was a sales call and was prepared to end it perfunctorily . Unexpectedly , coming from the other end of the line was a deep and resolute voice of a middle - aged man . He said in an incontestable tone that my neighbor had a car accident as a result of borrowing my car , which traumatized them both physically and mentally and harmed their economic interests , and as the car owner , they would not sue me if I compensated them for the hospital charge and the costs of
missing work hours
TIME
-LRB-
three
CARDINAL
times
-RRB-
PERSON
, otherwise they would see me in court . He added that he was certain about the case as a lawyer in business for
ten years
DATE
and the compensation he requested could double in court . As a great
Chinese
NORP
guy , how could I be scared by a few remarks of the lawyer ? I also took up the weapon of law for justice . Of course , I also retained a lawyer . Out of my expectation , my lawyer solved the problem by merely making
two
CARDINAL
phone calls .
One
CARDINAL
was to the police station , asking for any additional findings in the investigation report of the accident . There was additional findings unexpectedly , which were against them . Someone at the junk yard found a bottle of unfinished wine without the lid inside the car and reported it to the police station . The police found they put the bottle of unfinished wine in the car without the lid after lunch . The
second
ORDINAL
call was to their lawyer . So their lawyer dropped the lawsuit . Of course , they would not stop it there and came to discuss with me several times , sometimes honey - tongued and sometimes threatening . The most classic one was : Do n't ever dream of living a life back to
China
GPE
, as we have people across the country . Disgusting !
Here comes the old topic again , are you going to lend your car if your neighbor or friend asks . I think many people will say they wo n't . I would suggest not to lend online . However , the Internet is after all virtual . Words sometimes have no emotions . When your seemingly nice neighbor , seemingly close friend , or a girl whose eyes can speak asks for it in the real world , how many people will answer with a " no ? " Anyhow , I was not able to do that . I lent my car to some people in need after that , and I believe there are not many people like my former neighbor couple . In conclusion , here is a summery of the loss of the
two
CARDINAL
sides : . Our side : A
02
CARDINAL
Camary of
50,000 miles
QUANTITY
, retaining fee
200
CARDINAL
.
Annual
DATE
leave
two days
DATE
.
Their side :
One
CARDINAL
leg of the father -LRB- repaired
-RRB-
PERSON
, hospital charge : unknown , costs for missing work
hours
TIME
: unknown , retaining fee : unknown . And most importantly : the dignity and honor of the entire family -LRB- except children
-RRB-
PERSON
. -- * Source : · BBS Unknown Space http://mitbbs.com · -LSB- FROM :
129.137
CARDINAL
. -RSB- .
Guo Kai 's
PERSON
Economic Notes :
Beijing
GPE
's Gas Price vs.
US
GPE
Gas Price
Guo Kai 's
PERSON
Economic Notes In the
US
GPE
the current average price of regular unleaded gas is
about 2.3 US dollars
MONEY
per gallon -LRB-
3.78
CARDINAL
liters
-RRB-
PERSON
. According to the official exchange rate of
one US dollar
MONEY
for
7.9 RMB
MONEY
, this price is equivalent to
4.80 yuan
MONEY
/ liter . Note , this gas price includes all taxes .
The current gas price in
Beijing
GPE
is
5.09 yuan
MONEY
/ liter ,
2
CARDINAL
mao and
9
CARDINAL
fen more than in the
US
GPE
. In fact , the gas price difference between the
two
CARDINAL
places is
larger than
CARDINAL
2
CARDINAL
mao and
9
CARDINAL
fen because
China
GPE
's gas price does not include so many taxes as in the
US
GPE
; for example , the highway maintenance fee in
China
GPE
is paid separately . Just now , I only narrated a fact . But I believe that different persons see different problems in this fact . Let me describe people 's
two
CARDINAL
reactions that I can imagine , or the
two
CARDINAL
problems I can see .
1.
CARDINAL
The
US
GPE
gas price is too cheap . In an absolute sense , the
US
GPE
gas price has +already been cheaper than
China
GPE
's , and in a relative sense , the
US
GPE
gas price is even cheaper . In the
US
GPE
, the money you pay for a meal at
McDonald
ORG
's can fill up
more than 10
CARDINAL
liters of gas , but in
Beijing
GPE
you can get
5
CARDINAL
- 6 liters of gas at most . The
US
GPE
low gas price policy has undoubtedly led to this country 's excessive use of and overdependence on energy resources . However , there is more to this matter , the whole world has to share the various negative effects caused by the
US
GPE
excessive energy consumption : global warming , and wars caused by oil , etc.
It is totally a joke that the
US
GPE
gas price could be cheaper than
China
GPE
's . 2.
China
GPE
's gas price is too expensive . Both
Americans
NORP
and
Chinese
NORP
buy gas from the international market , and the technology and cost of oil refinement are not too much different . But with the
US
GPE
gas price including taxes even lower than
China
GPE
's gas price excluding taxes , you can see how much money
Chinese
NORP
oil companies have made out of this . If there are no price controls and monopolies ,
China
GPE
's gas price should n't have been this high . I want to say that I think these
two
CARDINAL
opinions are both correct . So , on the issue of oil consumption , I think
China
GPE
and the
US
GPE
, the No.
1
CARDINAL
and No.
2
CARDINAL
oil consumers in the world , are also a funny pair . From a global perspective , the
US
GPE
gas price is obviously too low . So Mankiw at
Harvard
ORG
even formed a "
Pigou Club
WORK_OF_ART
, " gathering social celebrities who support levying higher taxes on gas prices -LRB- hereby raising gas prices
-RRB-
PERSON
.
China
GPE
's gas prices are more complicated .
In fact , gas prices in
China
GPE
are probably not very high , but in order to reduce
China
GPE
's future overdependence on gas , it may be better that
China
GPE
's gas prices are higher . But , the direct result of the gas price increase in
China
GPE
will be the increase of monopoly profits of the monopoly companies . This part of money will not become the government tax revenue , will not be used for public welfare , and on the contrary , will only make the benefits of those people working at the monopoly department even better . In other words , the gas price in
China
GPE
is too high in the distributive sense . It is the price that transfers the entire social resources to a very small number of people . But in terms of sustainability ,
China
GPE
's gas price may still be too low . We need high gas prices to control the overdependence on energy imports . Perhaps someone will condemn me , saying further increase of gas prices will make life unbearable for people . If you are a taxi driver , my reply is : the reason your life is unbearable is not the gas price , but because of our taxi licensing regulation system . If you are a car owner , my reply is : ride the subway and bus more often .
It saves money , reduces congestion , and also lets you know car owners are not in a position to say " life is unbearable . " Compared with most people , your life is already quite good .
darling0823 Comparing McDonald 's
PERSON
in the
US
GPE
with
McDonald 's
ORG
in
China
GPE
may not be right . Eating a meal at
McDonald 's
ORG
in the
US
GPE
is more comparable to buying a
5 - yuan
MONEY
boxed meal in
China
GPE
. Advice to
Wu Jinglian
PERSON
and Others : Killing the Father -- Does You No Good ! .
613305
PERSON
Posted by -LSB- Little
Peng Zhongyi
PERSON
-RSB- at
Jan 3 , 2007
DATE
18:53:26 -LSB- SMS -RSB- -LSB- Tables -RSB- . Advice to
Wu Jinglian
PERSON
and Others : Killing the Father -- Does You No Good ! .
-- Some Thoughts on the Attitude of Benign Inheritance towards Social Reform . A glance at the title , people with a little political sensitivity may roughly understand the core topic of this article : the rule of benign interaction between planned economy and market economy , and between public ownership and private ownership -- because only their relationships are those between a father and a son , and it is only between them are there different conflicts involving " human relations , " " rules " and " science , " as well as bloody wrestling between classes , factions and individuals on the basis of morality and interests . Comparing planned economy and public ownership to a father is tantamount to comparing market economy and private ownership to a son , which holds water principally and historically no matter you put it this way or another . This is because the former
two
CARDINAL
given " fatherhood " are indeed the most essential factors of the national character and institution of the socialist new
China
GPE
, while the latter
two
CARDINAL
dubbed " son " in this article -- are indeed the ideological outcomes derived after the death of
China
GPE
's founder Comrade
Mao Zedong
PERSON
under tremendous international and domestic political pressures on planned economy and public ownership , which grew into
today
DATE
's para-system after
about 30 years
DATE
of reform and opening up . Regarding this , the factual development process of political civilization that the
Marxist
NORP
ideology has been increasingly marginalized over
the past 30 years or so
DATE
is a strong evidence . By sorting out the essence of the above historical background and conceptual relationships , we will have a pretty thorough , comprehensive and systematic knowledge framework about the benign inevitable trends and development guidelines of the future society dependent on the rule of society , so that the associated impression captured may be more concrete . Regarding this , my standpoint is : because the socialism underpinned by planned economy , public ownership and the people 's democratic dictatorship is indeed a really " fresh " systemic thing for
China
GPE
in the mid and
late 20th century
DATE
-- without a model or sufficient experience or theories to refer to , no matter how scientific its kernel is , it is hard not to have certain superficial and local problems . However , this should not provide an excuse to overthrow it by fair means or foul , as he is our father and the common choice of
millions
CARDINAL
of laboring people . The fact that it " finally became our national character and main system after
over half a century
CARDINAL
of international and domestic political transformation " is a stronger proof that it is the milestone for a new civilization resulted from the blood and sweat of
thousands
CARDINAL
of proletarian revolutionary martyrs .
Therefore , no matter from the perspective of average citizens or from the standpoint of the founder of the new government , we should respect and develop her on the basis of inheritance , innovation and improvement . Is my opinion above correct ? I believe you will naturally obtain a relatively fair and just conclusion if you could understand and treat the above - mentioned " father " system and " son " system with impartiality and sufficient goodwill . For example , based on the existing institutional cultural heritage in the human history , we could see : the " father " system mentioned herein has the majority in mind or it is established in the fundamental and long - term interests of the majority , as well as the need for sustainable and sound development of the country , the nation , and the overall society -- while the " son " system mentioned herein is ignorant and sick in the company of such behavioral characteristics as exploitation , fraudulence , pernicious influence and robbery . So , we can not urge the son to throttle the essentially healthy and scientific " father " system by fair mean or foul without considering the consequences , because there are problems in its practice and development -- such as state monopoly for purchases and sales , lower efficiency due to centralized management , and inhibition of the will of productivity by undue political pressure resulting from class struggles during the new deal . It is because that will not only make the society increasingly ignorant and sick as it violates the rule of benign social development , distorts normal " human relations " and the ethic and prevalent value and the rule of civilization update rooted in it , but the humanity will retrogress as people 's thoughts and behaviors become increasingly ridiculous . Yes , this is the case . My opinion above is not absurd and delusive at all , because this is true not only in theory , but also to the rule of social development as demonstrated by historical facts , as well as from the perspective of the situation and reality of the country : None of the current " advocates of market economy , private ownership and dictatorship of the bourgeoisie " has established and proposed a new deal " against planned economy , public ownership and dictatorship of the proletariat . " All their criticisms are directed at the developmental symptoms such as " lower efficiency due to centralized management " or " inhibition of the will of productivity by undue political pressure resulting from class struggles during the new deal , " all their proclamations are political attacks and instigation aimed to win over the less than 5 % " vested interests , " and their development logic asks the "
95 %
PERCENT
" laboring people to stay where they are and willingly endure the hard work -- it speaks for itself how empty , ridiculous , sick , ignorant and anti-government it is .
That 's why I want to say to the world and the age by the end of the article : when the father 's toes are injured , we should try our best to treat the foot problem , and open up a new life and embrace health in the principle of respecting human relations , obeying people 's wishes , conforming to science and carrying on the legacy -- if the present capitalist followers frantically urge the son to kill him by all means , the result could only be a tragedy ! And these happen to be the core of the destiny where the capitalist roaders " will inevitably bury themselves due to their ignorance and insanity , and more or less harm the human society ! " At last , I would like to admonish sincerely and earnestly those who blindly oppose , hate and even suppress planned economy , public ownership and dictatorship of the proletariat , especially the " mainstream elite scholars " including
Wu Jinglian
PERSON
, who insist on smearing the " father " to the end : do not treat the " fathers " on which the new civilization is based barbarously , against your conscience and frantically for immediate gains . The result is definitely a tragedy -- because even if you kill the " father , " your felony will be disdained by the age and condemned by the people , which naturally leads to nothing good ! Independent economic and human studies analyst . Brother and companion of conscientious
Chinese
NORP
sons and daughters :
Peng Zhongyi
PERSON
.
January 2 , 2007
DATE
. Contact for friendship and blame QQ :
22761792
CARDINAL
MSN
ORG
: p...@hotmail.com
email : youyutianshi...@sina.com [] Outer Mongolia Voluntarily Proposes to Return to
China
GPE
: a Conspiracy to Alienate
China
GPE
and
Russia
GPE
? [] <POSTER>
jeffery7373 [jeffery7373]
PERSON
Recently , a message "
Mongolian Parliament Proposes
WORK_OF_ART
to
Merge Mongolia
PERSON
into
China
GPE
" is extraordinarily striking . [jeffery7373] It was reported that
State Great Hural of Mongolia
FAC
was currently discussing a proposal about a plan for
Mongolia
GPE
and
China
GPE
to found a federal state . [
jeffery7373] The Govi
ORG
member
first
ORDINAL
put forward the above plan in
the State Social and Economic Development Seminar
ORG
. [jeffery7373] On
October 30 , 2004
DATE
,
State Great Hural of Mongolia
ORG
held a special discussion on the establishment of
Sino - Mongolian
NORP
coalition and merger of
Mongolia
GPE
into
China
GPE
. [jeffery7373] During the discussion , the
Govi
ORG
member proposed to merge
Mongolia
GPE
into
China
GPE
and build a special administrative district like
Hong Kong
GPE
and
Macau
GPE
in
China
GPE
, making
Mongolia
PERSON
return to the motherland finally and becoming a part of
China
GPE
. [jeffery7373] As early as 1995 ,
2000
DATE
and
2002
DATE
, there were parliamentary members who kept proposing to join
Mongolia
GPE
with
China
GPE
, but these bills never get discussed due to the resistances .
[jeffery7373] In
recent years
DATE
, Mongolian government faces growing pressure arising from economic hardship . The wealthy life of the
Mongolian
NORP
nationality in places like
Erlian
NORP
in
China
GPE
resulted in strong attractions to herdsmen . [jeffery7373] People including many upper class figures are increasingly attracted by
China
GPE
's economic growth , particularly the relative prosperity and affluence in
Inner Mongolia
LOC
. [jeffery7373] However , on the other hand
China
GPE
's ambition to " recapture "
Outer Mongolia
PERSON
in its political territory will also be very far away and even nearly impossible . [jeffery7373]
First
ORDINAL
, there are still enormous resistances inside
Mongolia
GPE
against " returning " to
China
GPE
. Moreover , even the form of merger conceived by those " returnists " also has some divergences from
China
GPE
's will . [jeffery7373]
Second
ORDINAL
, international resistances , including those from
USA
GPE
,
Japan
GPE
and particularly
Russia
GPE
, are sure to be very vehement . After all , we still need
Russia
GPE
's help in our international strategy and defense development . [
jeffery7373] Third
ORG
, the response of the
Mongolian
NORP
nationality to this issue can not be ignored either . [jeffery7373]
One
CARDINAL
thing to point out is that the loyalty of
China
GPE
's
Mongolian
NORP
nationality to their country is unquestionable .
[jeffery7373] If "
Tibetan
NORP
independence " and "
Xinjiang
GPE
independence " may have more or less social foundation among
Tibetan
GPE
and
Xinjing
GPE
people , the so - called " Mongolian independence " is absolutely the mental masturbation of a tiny proportion of
Mongolian
NORP
intellectuals and overseas anti-
China
GPE
powers . [jeffery7373] Despite all this , many
Mongolian
NORP
in
Inner Mongolia
LOC
are not willing to see the complete disappearance of an independent
Mongolia
GPE
. I believe such sentiment should be understandable . [jeffery7373] Hastily " recapturing "
Outer Mongolia
PERSON
may cause resistance among
Inner Mongolian
PRODUCT
people . [
jeffery7373] Background Information
ORG
. [jeffery7373] The Great Hural of Mongolia proposed to return to
China
GPE
43
CARDINAL
times . [jeffery7373] In
1921
DATE
, the
Mongolian
NORP
people won the revolution and declared independence in
July
DATE
and established a " constitutional monarchy . " [jeffery7373] Following the death of
Jebtsundamba
FAC
in
May 1924
DATE
, the
1st
ORDINAL
People 's Great Hural
EVENT
was held in
Kulun
GPE
on
November of the same year
DATE
and declared the abolishment of
Constitutional Monarchy
FAC
and founded
the People 's Republic of Mongolia
GPE
. [jeffery7373] On
February 11 , 1945
DATE
, the leaders of
USA
GPE
,
USSR
GPE
and
UK
GPE
signed
Yalta Agreement
WORK_OF_ART
that covered the sovereignty of
Outer Mongolia
PERSON
. [jeffery7373] In
1946
DATE
,
the National Government of China
ORG
recognized the independence of
Outer Mongolia
PERSON
.
[jeffery7373] Upon the foundation of
the People 's Republic of China
GPE
, it established its diplomatic relations with
China
GPE
on
October 16 , 1949
DATE
. [
jeffery7373] Mongolia
ORG
is an inland country and borders
China
GPE
and
Russia
GPE
only . [jeffery7373] This determines
three
CARDINAL
types of nation survival strategies ,
pro-Russia
NORP
or
pro-China
LOC
or balance among powers . [jeffery7373] At present ,
Mongolia
PERSON
's nation survival strategy is balance among powers and seeks the maximum interests for itself . [jeffery7373] Prior to the breakdown of
the Soviet Union
GPE
,
Mongolia
GPE
did n't have its own troops and defense was provided by
the Soviet Union
GPE
. [jeffery7373] After the disintegration of
the Soviet Union
GPE
,
Mongolia
PERSON
started to build its compulsory service scheme and recruit frontier troops . [jeffery7373] However ,
Mongolia
GPE
borders
China
GPE
and
Russia
GPE
only , and even all people are soldiers can not guarantee the
100 percent
PERCENT
security of its soil . [
jeffery7373] Thus
ORG
, it has nearly no military forces . [jeffery7373] In fact ,
the Soviet Union
GPE
itself ever considered the incorporation of
Mongolia
GPE
as a union republic seriously and provided permanent defense , but gave it up because of the strong objection from
Mongolia
GPE
. [jeffery7373] The control of
Russia
GPE
over
the Far East
LOC
area was significantly reduced as a result of its domestic weakness .
[jeffery7373] The breakdown of
the Soviet Union
GPE
had huge and far - reaching effects on
China
GPE
, [jeffery7373] and made great contributions to the whole world , [jeffery7373] and benefits
Chinese
NORP
nationalities a lot . [jeffery7373] The military expenditure for the land forces could be transferred to the air and naval forces , and there emerged a growingly powerful air force and blue ocean fleet and a relatively safe and peaceful construction period of
several decades
DATE
, and
China
GPE
can come close to the feasible action that will solve the
Taiwan
GPE
issue indeed , [jeffery7373] and the military science made substantial progress , and the ideologically blank area left as a result of the disintegration of
the Soviet Union -LRB-
GPE
these traditional scope of
the Soviet Union 's
GPE
influence like
Iran
GPE
and
Egypt
GPE
in
Middle East
LOC
, and
Cuba
GPE
,
Venezuela
GPE
and
Bolivia
GPE
in
Latin America
LOC
-RRB-
PERSON
was gained quickly , [jeffery7373] This was impossible to achieve before the disintegration of
the Soviet Union
GPE
. [jeffery7373] Meanwhile , it brought a very rare opportunity for
Mongolia
PERSON
's return . [jeffery7373] Although
the Great Hural of Mongolia
FAC
proposed to return to
China
GPE
43
CARDINAL
times ,
China
GPE
has n't made any positive comments and feedback so far . [
jeffery7373] Voice
ORG
. [jeffery7373] It is not the right time for
Mongolia
PERSON
's return . [jeffery7373] Firstly ,
Mongolia
PERSON
's geographic location is very important and situated between
China
GPE
and
Russia
GPE
. If
Mongolia
PERSON
returned to
China
GPE
, it would cast shadow on
Sino - Russian
NORP
relations inevitably and damage the whole situation of the
Sino - Russian
NORP
strategic cooperation . [jeffery7373] In the period of
Three
CARDINAL
Kingdoms ,
Sun Quan
PERSON
and
Liu Bei
PERSON
broke their coalition for Jing prefecture .
[
jeffery7373] Mongolia
ORG
has an important strategic location as Jing prefecture . [jeffery7373] Both
China
GPE
and
Russia
GPE
develop friendly relations with
Mongolia
GPE
, which has positive impact on the stabilization of
Sino - Russian
NORP
borders and
Mongolia
PERSON
's domestic situation . [jeffery7373] Otherwise , If
Mongolia
PERSON
returned , it would make
Russia
GPE
feel facing a great enemy and obstruct the rise of
Russia
GPE
. [jeffery7373] A weak
Russia
GPE
allows
USA
GPE
to concentrate on threatening
China
GPE
, which will undermine the benefits of our great strategy . [jeffery7373]
Secondly
ORDINAL
, we are not strong enough . [jeffery7373] Among many problems related to the reunification of the motherland ,
Mongolia
GPE
has low priority , far less important than
Taiwan
GPE
,
Diaoyu Island
LOC
and
South Sea
LOC
. [jeffery7373] We can not accept
Mongolia
PERSON
because of its voluntary return . [jeffery7373] Before these problems get solved , the timing of
Mongolia
GPE
's return can not be mature . [jeffery7373] It is quite simple . If the nation is not strong , we can not get reunified for reunification and lose the great opportunity to develop our strength .
[jeffery7373] Thirdly ,
Mongolia
GPE
's motivation for return is not strong , and its will is not firm and can be suspected to be a kind of speculation . [jeffery7373] Nowadays ,
Mongolia
PERSON
is developing friendly relations with both
USA
GPE
and
Japan
GPE
and conducted joint military exercises with
USA
GPE
, which has troops stationed in
Mongolia
GPE
. All these indicate that
Mongolia
GPE
's return may be a giant alienating conspiracy , the purpose of which is to make
China
GPE
and
Russia
GPE
suspect each other and fight against each other for
Mongolia
GPE
and lose cooperation and trust . [jeffery7373]
Fourthly
ORDINAL
, for
China
GPE
and
Russia
GPE
, they should develop their relations with
Mongolia
GPE
jointly and expel the forces of
USA
GPE
and
Japan
GPE
out of
Mongolia
GPE
. This is what we should do , [jeffery7373] rather than accept
Mongolia
PERSON
's hesitant return blindly . [
jeffery7373] Offering
ORG
to ally with
Russia
GPE
, reaching its understanding and developing relations with
Mongolia
GPE
, are our best strategy . [
jeffery7373] Therefore
ORG
, we are patriots but not blind ones . Only if we have strategic thinking , consider the long - term stability and security of the country , and consider the international situations , we can make the best decision . [herobeauty] Which
year
DATE
's news ? [saite] Without doubt , the strategic location of
Mongolia
GPE
is more important than
Taiwan
GPE
.
[saite] If
Mongolia
PERSON
can be recaptured , it deserves high priority . [saite] In fact , the real implacable enemies of
China
GPE
are not
the United States
GPE
but
Russia
GPE
and
Japan
GPE
. [saite] I prefer to give up
Taiwan
GPE
rather than
Mongolia
GPE
. [saite]
Recapturing Mongolia
PERSON
can give
Russia
GPE
a fatal strike and meanwhile further secure our geographically strategic environment . [saite] Churchill ever said there was no friendship but interests between nations . [saite] We do n't need to care about the feeling of
Russian
NORP
. [saite] Actually , we and
Russian
NORP
have been deeply suspicious and jealous of each other all the time , but both remain tacit . [saite]
China
GPE
has to rely on itself to become mighty . [saite] -LRB- In the master piece of
jeffery7373
GPE
-LRB- midou
-RRB-
PERSON
, it is mentioned :
-RRB-
PERSON
[saite] : Recently , a message "
Mongolian Parliament Proposes
WORK_OF_ART
to
Merge Mongolia
PERSON
into
China
GPE
" is extraordinarily arresting .
It was reported that
State Great
FAC
[saite] : Hural of Mongolia was currently discussing a proposal about a plan for
Mongolia
GPE
and
China
GPE
to found a federal state . The
Govi
ORG
representative [saite] :
first
ORDINAL
put forward the above plan in
the State Social and Economic Development Seminar
ORG
. On
October 30 , 2004
DATE
,
State Great Hural of Mongolia
ORG
[saite] : held a special discussion on the establishment of
Sino - Mongolian
NORP
coalition and merger of
Mongolia
GPE
into
China
GPE
. During the discussion , the
Govi
ORG
member [saite] : proposed to merge
Mongolia
GPE
into
China
GPE
and build a special administrative district like
Hong Kong
GPE
and
Macau
GPE
in
China
GPE
, making
Mongolia
PERSON
[saite] : return to the motherland finally and becoming a part of
China
GPE
. [saite] :
As early as 1995 , 2000 and
DATE
2002
DATE
, there were parliamentary members who kept proposing to join
Mongolia
GPE
with
China
GPE
, [saite] : but these bills never get discussed due to the resistances . In
recent years
DATE
, Mongolian government faces growing pressure arising from [saite] : economic hardship . The wealthy life of the
Mongolian
NORP
nationality in places like
Erlian
NORP
in
China
GPE
resulted in strong attractions to herdsmen . People including [saite] : many upper class figures are increasingly attracted by
China
GPE
's economic growth , particularly the relative prosperity and affluence in
Inner Mongolia
LOC
. [wonderlich] Hehe , " Is the strategic location of
Mongolia
GPE
more important than
Taiwan
GPE
" ? [wonderlich] -LRB- In the master piece of saite -LRB- saite
-RRB-
PERSON
, it is mentioned :
-RRB-
PERSON
[wonderlich] : Without doubt , the strategic location of
Mongolia
GPE
is more important than
Taiwan
GPE
. [wonderlich] : If
Mongolia
PERSON
can be recaptured , it deserves high priority . [wonderlich] : In fact , the real implacable enemies of
China
GPE
are not
the United States
GPE
but
Russia
GPE
and
Japan
GPE
. [wonderlich] : I prefer to give up
Taiwan
GPE
rather than
Mongolia
GPE
. [wonderlich] :
Recapturing Mongolia
PERSON
can give
Russia
GPE
a fatal strike and meanwhile further secure our geographically strategic environment . [wonderlich] : Churchill ever said there was no friendship but interests between nations . [wonderlich] : We do n't need to care about the feeling of
Russian
NORP
. [wonderlich] : Actually , we and
Russian
NORP
have been deeply suspicious and jealous of each other all the time , but both remain tacit . [wonderlich] :
China
GPE
has to rely on itself to become mighty . [viamedia] hehe .
[viamedia] -LRB- In the master piece of wonderlich -LRB- Left bank , reclusion
-RRB-
PERSON
, it is mentioned :
-RRB-
PERSON
[viamedia] : Hehe , " Is the strategic location of
Mongolia
GPE
more important than
Taiwan
GPE
" ? [wonderlich] The current status of
Outer Mongolia
PERSON
is an optimal status for all powers . [wonderlich] As for
Taiwan
GPE
, should
China
GPE
want to " rise " , it must solve
Taiwan
GPE
problem
first
ORDINAL
. [wonderlich] -LRB- In the master piece of viamedia -LRB- Mens conscia recti
-RRB-
PERSON
, it is mentioned :
-RRB-
PERSON
[wonderlich] : hehe . [viamedia] nod . [viamedia]
Sea
LOC
is more important than land . [viamedia] Take back
Taiwan
GPE
, and
Japanese
NORP
will become well - behaved . [viamedia]
The United States
GPE
has to withdraw its defense line to the
third
ORDINAL
island chain .
[viamedia] -LRB- In the master piece of wonderlich -LRB- Left bank , reclusion
-RRB-
PERSON
, it is mentioned :
-RRB-
PERSON
[viamedia] : The current status of
Outer Mongolia
PERSON
is an optimal status for all powers . [viamedia] : As for
Taiwan
GPE
, should
China
GPE
want to " rise " , [viamedia] : it must solve
Taiwan
GPE
problem
first
ORDINAL
. [wonderlich] Both
Japan
GPE
and
Taiwan
GPE
are bluffing to restore their normal state status , are n't they ? [wonderlich] Until
one day
DATE
China
GPE
makes the voice " We want to be a normal and united state " , [wonderlich] They should topple over due to scare -- [wonderlich] -LRB- In the master piece of viamedia -LRB- Mens conscia recti
-RRB-
PERSON
, it is mentioned :
-RRB-
PERSON
: [wonderlich] : nod [wonderlich] : Sea is more important than land [wonderlich] : Take back
Taiwan
GPE
, and
Japanese
NORP
will become well - behaved . [wonderlich] :
The United States
GPE
has to withdraw its defense line to the
third
ORDINAL
island chain .
[viamedia] Making the voice or not does n't matter . To do or not to do matters . [viamedia] Less words and more actions . In this point ,
Hu
PERSON
is fuckingly good . [viamedia] -LRB- In the master piece of wonderlich -LRB- Left bank , reclusion
-RRB-
PERSON
, it is mentioned :
-RRB-
PERSON
[viamedia] : Both
Japan
GPE
and
Taiwan
GPE
are bluffing to restore their normal state status , are n't they ? [viamedia] : Until
one day
DATE
China
GPE
makes the voice " We want to be a normal and united state " , [viamedia] : They should topple over due to scare -- [saite] If you have no interest in contending for hegemony , from the perspective of defense ,
Mongolia
GPE
is more important without doubt . [saite] In terms of feasibility ,
Mongolia
GPE
is more realistic than
Taiwan
GPE
. [saite] Moreover ,
Taiwanese
NORP
are all
Hans
NORP
.
What kind of benefits a war can bring ?
Weaken
PERSON
the strength of
Chinese
NORP
? [saite] Of course ,
Taiwan
GPE
will become richer . However , from the point of the security strategy , [saite] the geographical location of
Mongolia
GPE
is of more significance to us . You can understand it simply by looking at the map . [saite] -LRB- In the master piece of wonderlich -LRB- Left bank , reclusion
-RRB-
PERSON
, it is mentioned :
-RRB-
PERSON
[saite] : Hehe , " Is the strategic location of
Mongolia
GPE
more important than
Taiwan
GPE
" ? [wonderlich] ah -- From the perspective of defense , you 'd rather buy a
Pacific
LOC
island as a state . [wonderlich] Be assured that no one has interest in attacking it by traveling
thousands of miles
QUANTITY
-- [wonderlich]
North China
LOC
never has any advantageous terrain for defense regardless how large it is .
[wonderlich] A neutral
Mongolia
PERSON
is really great for both
China
GPE
and
Russia
GPE
-- [wonderlich]
Taiwan
GPE
is an outpost with the
Pacific
LOC
in its vision . [wonderlich] If it is under the control of
China
GPE
's enemy , the economic hinterland are fully exposed . [wonderlich] Do you never look at the map ? [wonderlich] -LRB- In the master piece of saite -LRB- saite
-RRB-
PERSON
, it is mentioned :
-RRB-
PERSON
[wonderlich] : If you have no interest in contending for hegemony , from the perspective of defense ,
Mongolia
GPE
is more important without doubt . [wonderlich] : In terms of feasibility ,
Mongolia
GPE
is more realistic than
Taiwan
GPE
. [wonderlich] : Moreover ,
Taiwanese
NORP
are all
Hans
NORP
. What kind of benefits a war can bring ?
Weaken
PERSON
the strength of
Chinese
NORP
?
[wonderlich] : Of course ,
Taiwan
GPE
will become richer . However , from the point of the security strategy , [wonderlich] : the geographical location of
Mongolia
GPE
is of more significance to us . You can understand it simply by looking at the map . [qianwang] Resouces ! [zoun]
Taiwan
GPE
used to be a part of
China
GPE
and this is recognized by the international community . [zoun] However ,
USA
GPE
and
Japan
GPE
have set up obstacles . It can be solved sooner or later . [zoun] This
Mongolia
PERSON
was lost in the hands of
Old Jiang
GPE
, so it is a problem . [zoun] The map of
the Republic of China
GPE
is always in a shape of mulberry leaf , is n't it ? [zoun] Once
Taiwan
GPE
is taken back , the name of the country can be changed to
the Republic of China
GPE
with the flag of blue sky and white sun and the mulberry leaf - shaped map reused .
In this way , we have more reasons and confidences to recapture
Mongolia
PERSON
. Hehe . [zoun] Actually ,
Russian
NORP
and
Japanese
NORP
are our greatest threats . [zoun] -LRB- In the master piece of saite -LRB- saite
-RRB-
PERSON
, it is mentioned : -RRB- [zoun] : Without doubt , the strategic location of
Mongolia
GPE
is more important than
Taiwan
GPE
. [zoun] : If
Mongolia
PERSON
can be recaptured , it deserves high priority . [zoun] : In fact , the real implacable enemies of
China
GPE
are not
the United States
GPE
but
Russia
GPE
and
Japan
GPE
. [zoun] : I prefer to give up
Taiwan
GPE
rather than
Mongolia
GPE
. [zoun] :
Recapturing Mongolia
PERSON
can give
Russia
GPE
a fatal strike and meanwhile further secure our geographically strategic environment . [zoun] : Churchill ever said there was no friendship but interests between nations .
[zoun] : We do n't need to care about the feeling of
Russian
NORP
. [zoun] : Actually , we and
Russian
NORP
have been deeply suspicious and jealous of each other all the time , but both remain tacit . [zoun] :
China
GPE
has to rely on itself to become mighty . I thank my
Beijing
GPE
friends and wish everyone
a Happy
WORK_OF_ART
New Year
EVENT
. mikecat Poster : mikecat -LRB- mikecat
-RRB-
PERSON
, Section :
Beijing
GPE
. Topic : I thank my
Beijing
GPE
friends and wish everyone
a Happy
WORK_OF_ART
New Year
EVENT
. Posting station : BBS Unnamed space station -LRB-
Mon Jan 1
DATE
12:05:53
TIME
2007
DATE
-RRB-
PERSON
.
A month ago
DATE
, I was really desperate , I lost my current job , which I was completely unprepared for , and had to find a job within
a month
DATE
to keep myself going .
Now in
this month
DATE
with the Christmas holiday there 's really
only three weeks
DATE
of actual work time , and I do n't think any companies are going to be hiring people during this period . Despair , that sinking feeling weighing on my mind , so much pressure I could n't eat , could n't sleep ; I was simply going crazy . But I still needed to do something ; getting crazy - hysteric makes no sense . Then I started connecting with my friends in
America
GPE
; I went to
Maimaiti
GPE
to ask for help , consulted about my status , and looked for a way to solve the problem . Even my relatives ' friends in
America
GPE
and my parents ' friends all got involved . Friends , it 's always friends who help me at key moments . Many friends got people they knew to recommend me , help me send out resumes , or call and commiserate with me . There was
one
CARDINAL
friend who had just got an offer , but he did n't want to go , so he recommended me to go for him , but it was way off in
LA
GPE
, plus the salary was n't ideal , but at least it could help me keep the legal status , so I thought I would take it . After the telephone interview , I flew to
LA
GPE
, landing at
12:00 noon
TIME
, and at
4:00 p.m.
TIME
. I had the interview .
By then
17 - 18 hours
TIME
had passed since I 'd gotten up at
4:00 a.m.
TIME
Although I was too tired to walk , I still had to pump up my spirits so I 'd be in peak form for the interview . The interview did n't last long ,
just two hours
TIME
and it was over . I felt the interview went well , and started to feel confident . But on
that day
DATE
one
CARDINAL
senior level person was n't there , so
the next day
DATE
early I had to go back to talk to him . So
the next day
DATE
I got up at
7:00
TIME
and ran over to chat for
an hour
TIME
; that guy was nice , did n't embarrass me , so after
an hour
TIME
it ended happily . After that the boss took me to the home office , and on the way he gave me an oral offer , and he said it would not be easy for me to come right away , that I should do the physical exam immediately and do all the paperwork , wait until after
New Year 's
EVENT
, and the HR director would return and turn in the
H1
PRODUCT
. Then I went straight for the physical , and I filled out the application form , reference list , etc. At
3:00 p.m.
TIME
, the dust finally settled . Finally before
Christmas
DATE
I received a
Christmas
DATE
present .
Although I still have n't made the final decision to go , at least I have a guaranteed - minimum choice . So I am thanking everyone for helping me . I hope that all my friends who are still looking for work will be able to find their ideal job in
the New Year
EVENT
. -- * Source : ・ BBS Unnamed space station http://mitbbs.com ・ -LSB- FROM :
72.224
CARDINAL
. -RSB- . . Eliminate the personal income tax -LRB- Reproduced from
Yueguang
PERSON
blog
-RRB-
PERSON
.
Dift Wu Official
PERSON
data confirm that in
2004
DATE
the total personal income tax for the country amounted to
approximately 181 billion
MONEY
, of which
65 %
PERCENT
came from the working class , and
only 10 %
PERCENT
came from the wealthy .
Clearly the personal income tax policy has too little effect on controlling wealth accumulation by the rich , and too little impact on improving the quality of life of wage earners . While this type of tax in
China
GPE
has no effect on regulating the income gap or on " taking from the rich to help the poor , " neither is it beneficial in expanding the working class . If this tax continues to be collected , it will be working against the original intention behind the income tax . Clearly the necessity for the personal income tax needs to be challenged . I propose eliminating the personal income tax just as the agricultural tax was eliminated , to give people an opportunity to prosper . If we think in terms of humanizing the system , i.e. , helping the poor by letting poor people get rich , we should give low - and moderate - income people a chance to improve and raise the quality of their lives ; the threshold for
China
GPE
's personal income tax should be at least tripled from the starting threshold of
800 yuan
MONEY
per month , i.e. , to
6400 yuan
MONEY
per person . That would take it to a minimally humanized level , and then we could really talk about " people
first
ORDINAL
. " With a threshold below this level , the poor will always be poor .
Yesterday
DATE
CCTV
ORG
presented a program on adjustment of the personal income tax , emphasized that the main goal of the adjustment was to " take from the rich " and let poor people get wealthy . If we really want to give poor people a chance to get wealthy , the threshold for the personal income tax should be tripled .
With anything under this threshold , the poor will have no chance to get rich . And if we 're looking at it in terms of " taking from the rich , " the problem to be adjusted is definitely not whether or not to tax income but rather the problem of the actual method for distributing
China
GPE
's social national income , namely how to eliminate the " unreported income . " The income of the vast majority of
China
GPE
's rich people is unreported income , and unreported income is a problem that
Chinese
NORP
society will not be able to solve for quite a long time to come ; it is a characteristic of
China
GPE
, an uncontrollable black hole in
China
GPE
's social oversight . This is far from being a tax problem ; it is a deeper systemic problem . If
China
GPE
's personal income tax can not achieve the effect of helping the poor to become rich , neither can it control the excessive incomes of the wealthy , so what is it we expect this personal income tax to do ? It would be better to eliminate it in
one
CARDINAL
fell swoop , as we did with the agricultural tax . Below are some of the main reasons :
1
CARDINAL
.
China
GPE
's income tax can not become a tool for keeping the poor perpetually poor ; it can not become a social tool that keeps on producing a penniless proletariat . In
China
GPE
the primary function of the income tax is to increase the state 's financial revenues ; it is not to regulate the income gap . In
2004
DATE
China
GPE
's income taxes amounted to
approximately 180 billion
MONEY
, accounting for
about 6 %
PERCENT
of the state 's financial revenues .
But of
this 180 billion
MONEY
,
about 65 %
PERCENT
, or
117 billion
CARDINAL
, was paid by the working class .
Less than 10 %
PERCENT
was paid by the wealthy . In
China
GPE
more than 90 %
PERCENT
of the people who depend on fully declared total earnings for a living are urban poor . These poor people , who struggle just to pay for the necessities of life , their children 's education , old age , illness and death , also have to pay income tax . In all of
China
GPE
's cities now , anyone with a
monthly
DATE
income of
2000 yuan
MONEY
or less is considered poor . If a husband and wife have a total
monthly
DATE
work income of
2000 yuan
MONEY
, and if they pay
33 %
PERCENT
income tax on anything over
1500 yuan
MONEY
, they have a disposable income of
only 1670 yuan
MONEY
. A household like this can not even continue bearing basic living expenses , and their standard of living will decline . And should anyone in the household get sick and have to go to the hospital , the family may well find itself in an economic crisis . And if a family like this wants to buy its own home , that will basically be impossible . And if only
one
CARDINAL
person in a
three
CARDINAL
- person family is employed , the family will have a very difficult life .
But even so , they have to pay
165 yuan
MONEY
in income tax . Clearly , if our income tax threshold is set at
1500 yuan
MONEY
, our society is destined always to produce a proletariat , always to deny hope to the poor or to the masses of ever getting rich . Our production relations are no different from the production relations in
Marx
PERSON
's " Das Kapital , " constantly reproducing a proletariat who can only rely on selling its labor to make a living . In short , if the personal income tax threshold is set lower than 6400 yuan , it will be ineffective in helping the poor get rich . Conversely , if the threshold is too low , it will cleanly and quickly inhibit the ability of poor people to get rich .
2.
CARDINAL
The personal income tax is absolutely unable to control the accumulation of wealth by the rich . We should not entertain any illusions that
China
GPE
's income tax can in any way regulate income distribution , much less that it can " take from the rich and give to the poor . " In
Chinese
NORP
society ,
20 %
PERCENT
of the people hold
80 %
PERCENT
of social wealth , and
80 %
PERCENT
of the people are able to use
only 20 %
PERCENT
of the social wealth to suffer through their lives . In
China
GPE
, freedom , human rights , democracy , happiness and all the other most effective benefits that society can offer refer
only to 20 %
PERCENT
of the people .
Western countries that attack
China
GPE
for not having human rights , democracy and freedom are quite wrong ; these
20 %
PERCENT
of upper - class citizens have broader human rights , democracy and freedom than do Western societies . When God looks at
China
GPE
, he sees only these
20 %
PERCENT
;
the other
PERCENT
80 %
PERCENT
he ca n't see clearly . The income of the vast majority of these
20
CARDINAL
, of upper - class citizens in
China
GPE
is basically unreported income ; the proportion of their income that comes from fully declared earnings is a negligible part of their wealth . Only if
China
GPE
eliminated unreported income would the income tax have an effect on rich people . And if
China
GPE
wants to eliminate unreported income , to date there is no sign of that , and there is no compelling evidence to explain when
China
GPE
might eliminate unreported income . Anyhow , it is not something our generation will see . That is why the income tax has no effect on regulating the wealth of
China
GPE
's rich people . It does however have a highly restrictive effect on the ability of poor people to get rich . A very simple explanation is that poor people are all wage earners who rely on fully declared wages for their living ; they do not have unreported income . Fully
100 %
PERCENT
of their income falls within the income - tax field of vision , so they ca n't escape even if they wanted to .
Add to this the fact that the threshold is under the level required to meet the necessary expenditures to maintain the basic necessities of life , and the poor are completely stymied . "
Dragons
PERSON
give birth to dragons , phoenixes to phoenixes ; the son of a bandit will live in a cave . " " The children of poor people are always poor . " With the previous
800 yuan
MONEY
income tax threshold , if it were strictly enforced ,
80 %
PERCENT
of beggars would have to pay . With a threshold set below
5000 yuan
MONEY
, this generation of poor people need not think about buying a home or driving a car . They will always be poor . Of course , many children of poor people are able to get rich , but this came about because the parents struggled harder , tightening their belts and " skimping on food and clothing " for themselves . Now how many university students who have received acceptance notifications are unable to enroll , and how many enrolled university students from the countryside have parents who are living through unimaginably hard times ? In Western countries , the personal income tax is the most effective means of controlling excessively high incomes among the rich . But these are countries ruled by law , where official income is all recorded , citizen 's incomes are fully transparent , and therefore the personal income tax can easily achieve the effect of regulating income distribution .
The situation in
China
GPE
is not like that ; if the personal income tax has an effect , it 's to increase financial revenues , and it has absolutely no income - regulating effect .
3.
CARDINAL
Eliminating the income tax will benefit peasants . The vast majority of
China
GPE
's
900 million
CARDINAL
peasants are unable to reach the income level for paying income tax . But the peasants have contractual land , they have a low - consumption rural lifestyle and conditions , and they have basic housing . But if people in the cities do n't have money , everything is a struggle . If they go shopping for food by bike , they have to pay
20 cents
MONEY
for parking . They ca n't not pay the rent or they 'll have to sleep on the street . In terms of macroeconomic law , the distribution of wealth in
Chinese
NORP
society is set at
2/8
CARDINAL
, with the
20 %
PERCENT
of wealthy people holding
80 %
PERCENT
of the social wealth , and
the 80 %
PERCENT
of poor people holding
just 20 %
PERCENT
of the social wealth . The personal income tax threshold is too low , the urban population is too large , and the population participating in
the 20 %
PERCENT
that goes to peasants is even greater , so the peasants ultimately have to get a reduced share of
this 20 %
PERCENT
. If we eliminate the personal income tax , the number of poor people in the cities will be reduced , and the people participating in the peasant struggle for this
20 %
PERCENT
will be reduced , which will benefit the peasants .
In
China
GPE
the wealthy will always hold
80 %
PERCENT
of the social wealth ; there has never been a softhearted rich person .
4.
CARDINAL
This will really be beneficial in establishing a soft - landing market economy system . In
recent years
DATE
China
GPE
's rate of state financial growth has been higher than economic growth ; this is a highly abnormal phenomenon , and in terms of economic theory it is highly adverse for sustained , healthy growth of the national economy . The blood has all been pumped out of the national economy ; it 's like eating up all the seeds sown in
the spring
DATE
. The proportion of financial revenues from the personal income tax is
about 6 %
PERCENT
. If we cancel out this
6 %
PERCENT
, we can slow down financial growth . And in the
Chinese
NORP
economic cycle , excessive financial investment is not a good thing for economic growth and the establishment of a true market economy system . Compared to market investment , the efficiency of financial investment is
less than half
CARDINAL
. And when there is too much financial investment , corruption is everywhere , all the time .
5
CARDINAL
. It promotes the establishment of a harmonious society .
Chinese
NORP
and foreign history amply demonstrates that a harmonious society is an olive - shaped society : the distribution of numbers of poor , middle - class and wealthy people making up the society is small at either end and larger in the middle , with
40 %
PERCENT
or more of the society being middle class .
Chinese
NORP
society is
80 %
PERCENT
poor people ,
20 %
PERCENT
wealthy ; there is no stable middle class , or it floats between the lower levels of the wealthy and the upper end of the poor and is highly unstable . There is no way this "
2/8
CARDINAL
" social structure can establish a harmonious society . Eliminating the personal income tax to accumulate wealth for the people will be beneficial in producing and nourishing a middle class and will promote the creation of a harmonious society . In short , if our personal income tax policy can not help the poor get rich , and is unable to limit the excessive increase in wealth among the rich , then it is better not to have this kind of personal income tax . We need to adopt this kind of strategic insight when we consider this matter , so as to benefit the country and the people . This essay is dedicated to all the hardworking people of the world . [] You should stand by your child .
Re : I can only stand by the facts -LRB- forward
-RRB-
PERSON
. [] <POSTER> Bcc [Bcc] -LSB- the following article was forwarded from
Overseas Discussion Area -RSB-
LOC
. [Bcc] I do n't know what the best way to deal with your child is . Do you know ? [Bcc] You 're
20 years old
DATE
; when you decided to have him , did you think you 'd be going through this problem ? [Bcc] If you 're thinking only of this child , then you should use legal means as quickly as possible to resolve this problem . [Bcc] But what the law can resolve is only the issue of alimony . [Bcc] How do you plan on getting through the future ? [Bcc] Will this child grow up in
China
GPE
or in
the United States
GPE
?
[Bcc] If in
the United States
GPE
, how will you support yourself ? [Bcc] How can you assure his livelihood ? [Bcc] By relying on Professor
Cui
PERSON
's alimony ? [Bcc] By relying on government assistance ? [Bcc] Even with both parents working , supporting a child is difficult . [Bcc] How can you assure this child 's education , food and clothing ? [Bcc] The child is blameless . [Bcc] Regardless of the reason that he came into this world , you can say that you struggled with all these difficulties for his benefit . [Bcc] But what did all this struggling get you ? [Bcc] And what do you plan to struggle for ?
[Bcc] You and CY ca n't be together . [Bcc] Even if his wife divorces him , her
two
CARDINAL
children will need alimony too . [Bcc] Of all that you struggle for , the only thing left may be a limited amount of money and this child 's nationality . [Bcc] These things are far from enough to give him the happiness he needs . [Bcc] What he needs is a stable , warm home , a loving and not hostile environment , a mother at peace with herself . [Bcc] Whether you love
CY
ORG
or you hate him , it 's a mistake . [Bcc] You should not let this mistake influence your judgment , a judgment about the future and welfare of your child . [Bcc] If you really loved him , then God has already granted you the fruit of this love ; [Bcc] if you still bear animosity , then you should learn to forget that animosity in the warm expression in your child 's eyes , and not contaminate his purity with your animosity . [Bcc] Ugliness is its own punishment .
[Bcc] In court , you carry that child , looking for the man who loves him and loves you . [Bcc] I hope mother and child are in good health and happy . [Bcc] -LSB- in
xiaojueniu -LRB-
GPE
peace is happiness
-RRB-
PERSON
's article , this was mentioned : -RSB- : [Bcc] : [Bcc] : I ca n't shield anyone , I can only stand by the facts , I ca n't commit perjury ,
Cui Yi
PERSON
did not negotiate with me , and now I have not [Bcc] : halted the legal proceeding . I only answered you to give them time to consider and prepare ; I am only acting in my child 's interests . [Bcc] : If
Cui Yi
PERSON
does not accept responsibility and does n't even make any good - faith acknowledgement of his mistake , then the legal process will go forward . A person should [Bcc] : behave with dignity , with moral integrity ; nobody forgives people who want to cover up their mistakes . Toward your own flesh and blood , [Bcc] : someone who is so cruel , I ca n't let him go unpunished . Miss , if you can see these words of mine , I hope you can [Bcc] : contact me .
I will answer you and do some things for you and your child , therefore I am waiting for you to show good faith . So many days have passed , I [Bcc] : have n't waited for anything at all . I am keeping my promise to you .
This week
DATE
is
the last week
DATE
I 'll wait . My attorney has already [Bcc] : informed me that I can not communicate with you again . But I want to trust you . Please do n't disappoint me . I trust that you are a [Bcc] : good person and wo n't deceive me . If you are sincere , please have your attorney contact my attorney as soon as possible , OK ? For the sake of my [Bcc] : child , I need to stand up and move ahead .
[Bcc] : Please do not send me any probing letters from those friends who support
Cui Yi
PERSON
; my child and I have already been [Bcc] : hurt a great deal . Please do not hurt us any more . My child and I have gone through a life and death struggle , and I have [Bcc] : suffered greatly . There is nothing wrong with my demanding that my child receive the rights he should have . You have your own parents and children , I hope [Bcc] : you can speak out of your own kindness . Everybody should stop dragging in
Cui Yi 's
PERSON
relatives and stop dragging in Miss
TITI
PERSON
, [Bcc] : OK ? Everybody care about me , please help me decide what is best for my child , thank you . They were down for
a week
DATE
and hobbled for
nearly a month
DATE
.
I find all of
Otto Hornung 's
PERSON
stories to be fascinating , I would have liked to hitch a ride in his briefcase in
years past
DATE
. The problem with this argument is that
Bush
PERSON
lacked the experience necessary to be president when he ran in
2000
DATE
, so this sort of cheap shot just hoists him by his own petard . Then it is time to hitch up . Even with his personal life in tatters ,
Sarkozy
PERSON
is obliged to hoist the
French
NORP
tricoleur high in the international arena . Acctually , I would LIKE to see it happen , that way all of you out there willing to hoist helmet laws on cyclists will get a tast of your own medicine , after all , it is safer , you know ... ...
They have to be questioning why they hitched their wagon to
Waltrip
GPE
.
Hubby
PERSON
did n't complain of course , just did his best to hobble to the ramp -LRB- and did n't make it , of course
-RRB-
PERSON
. at the same time , i hobble around like
Grandpappy Amos
PERSON
so who knows what i 'll be like at
77
DATE
? At the end of
a Dirt Road
FAC
, there was always extra springtime income , from when city dudes would get stuck , you 'd have to hitch up a team and pull them out . It is also a good idea to shade newly emerging seedlings until most have germinated andor the weather has cooled .
until that tyvek grisliness is overstressed and shears .
-RRB-
PERSON
Shame you 're not going to be there in
December
DATE
when we old folkies will be having a
second
ORDINAL
get-together at the
Waverley
PERSON
as the
first
ORDINAL
one went so well ! and the
Shimano
PERSON
engineers did not recognize that it was not for long enough spline teeth that it failed but because it unscrewed and disengaged the spline to a point where it WAS too weak and sheared off . I like X followed by NT , too , but in our methods 1N shows a
17-19
CARDINAL
balanced hand , so in this case it 's either
2N
CARDINAL
or shade it a little because I 'm not thrilled about
the C Qx
ORG
. Shame the Prince 's book with all the recipes for Potions is lost , though .
It occurred to me we are cursed in these groups with a few of our own , and they should be named and shamed . you are the sheep that they intend to shear and you give them money to do it to you all in the name of a more humain world , , ... this It sounded offended which gratified and shamed me at the same time . Nothing in my post said I could sit comfortably with those words , but I do n't have to heap my feelings about it on top to make it more than what it is . But
Shakespeare
PERSON
's sonnet breaks off from that tradition , for it heaps vilification on the beloved as if she were a tart .
If the
U.S.
GPE
is to meet these new challenges successfully , we must find the most effective way to harmonize the unique talents and resources of law enforcement and intelligence . Shortly after
1 p.m. Eastern time
TIME
today
DATE
, in a speech on the
Senate
ORG
floor , Mr.
Warner
PERSON
heaped praise on Mr.
Webb
PERSON
, but then delivered a sharp blow . His employers heaped praise upon his work while
Frantz
PERSON
has just left the paper to become
Middle East
LOC
correspondent of
the Wall Street Journal
ORG
based in - of course , you guessed it -
Istanbul
GPE
. He received lengthy and warm applause as he arrived for a joint session of the
Senate
ORG
and
the House of Representatives
ORG
, and his address was met by several standing ovations as he heaped praise on
the United States
GPE
. Shall yeet heap much
Praise
PERSON
upon the glory of the
Wereo
LOC
.
& quot ; Another of
GM
ORG
's pension programs , however , saddles the company with a liability of
$ 1.4 billion
MONEY
. folks , saddle up to the bar and order the drink of your choice as long as it is a well , this may be a long session and i do n't know if i can afford premiums . I would say that I 'd love to rustle around through your drawers , but I think that would come out sounding wrong . usenet group , but apparenly lysine is also good for anti-glycation and
& quot
LOC
; scavenges blood sugar. & quot ; When she received the
second
ORDINAL
huge bill , she wondered why the company , now aware that there was a problem , had n't intervened to stop the fees , or simply contacted her to inquire about them , like a credit card company .
& quot ; The point at issue , & quot ; he said at the time , & quot ; is not whether I believe in
a Supreme Being
FAC
, but whether the state has a right to inquire into my beliefs. & quot ; When I inquired about that the answer I was told was this - the secret service is afraid that if anything happens to you ,
Bill Clinton
PERSON
becomes president . The way to inquire about this problem or request rethreading is to go to the RootsWeb Help Desk , http : helpdesk.rootsweb.com And judging by the number of people who came to purchase lecture CDs afterwards and to inquire about
Islamic
NORP
courses , I would say we were successful in this respect ,
Al-hamdu
PERSON
lillah.
& quot
PERSON
; ronald I saw a PacLand
a few years ago -LRB- 03 '
DATE
or 04 ' -RRB- at Coinopwarehouse in
Md.
GPE
, but I did n't inquire about the price .
Did n't have time to inquire more , had to go to work ... But now , should you go thither to seek him , you would inquire in vain for
the Locofoco Surveyor
ORG
.
Every month
DATE
since , I 've had to call up to inquire why my bill was $
60
MONEY
-70 instead of the promised $
39.95
MONEY
.
The Marine Corps Ospreys
ORG
, known as
MV-22s
PRODUCT
, will be used to ferry
Marines
NORP
as well as cargo throughout predominately
Sunni Muslim
NORP
Anbar province . After an
intro
PERSON
, that left me unsure what song it was going to be they went into a kind of
& quot
LOC
; Do n't Fence Me In ,
& quot
LOC
; kind of rhythm - the same rhythm the Who use on & quot ; Soon Be Gone , & quot ; but it seemed to be abandoned pretty fast for something approximating the rhythm on the album .
Besides carnitine , it ferries the potent antioxidant ergothioneine , which is also the precursor for metallothionein -LSB- PMID 15795384 -RSB- . You can usually seehear when this happens , get yourself to a nice cruising speed , say
60mph
QUANTITY
, and then feather the throttle a little , when the bypass engages the revs will drop
about 500rpm
CARDINAL
, but with no loss of speed . As it was , I ended up having to drive a van full of relatives to and from the reception , and ferry a batch of them to the airport . I myself have been on both sides of the ' square tsuba ' fence at
one
CARDINAL
time or another , and I 'd very much like to ferret out what the truth is behind all this . They do n't work because the thief steels the device anyhow , and then either fences it for less money or tosses it when its found to be locked .
He showed it to me when I stayed with him in
London
GPE
two weeks ago
DATE
, and I also got to leaf through his copy of the book . That is how to laminate
two
CARDINAL
, without a mold . The researchers concluded : & quot ; In summary , our data show for the
first
ORDINAL
time that hepcidin localizes to the phagosome of infected ,
IFN
ORG
-gamma - activated cells and has antimycobacterial activity. & quot ; Dr.
Gawande
PERSON
was pretty sure that , in this patient , the problematic gland , which had been causing her to leach calcium from her bones and send it into the bloodstream , was on the right side of the neck . IF the exact set wasnt covered by
SAMS
ORG
, I leaf around until I find the set that is most like the one at hand .
Januarius
ORG
is buried in
Naples
GPE
; he is associated with the gooey red liquid because the blood from his severed head was stored in a vial and is believed to liquefy and bubble at certain times of
the year
DATE
. It usually looks like some kind of complex up-do , and it 's usually hair spray laminated to the extent that it probably wo n't move for
a week
DATE
,
LOL
ORG
... Light is a concern , because the colours will leach out . He leached out the salts in
1999
DATE
, not in
1984
DATE
. For some reason , he 's the one I gravitate towards .
It 's no wonder that , at an early age , I gravitated toward my own music -- copies of the Stones ' Hot Rocks
1964-1971
DATE
and
Sticky Fingers
PERSON
, my version of
& quot
LOC
; alt rock. & quot ; And they did n't gouge me on the price . The
Earth
LOC
may have gotten a big reheating when a giant impact gouged the
Moon
PERSON
out of its surface . I have several gauges , but I seem to gravitate toward the .80mm . I 've heard of gouging & quot ; rich
USAans & quot
ORG
; , but this is the
first
ORDINAL
case I 've heard of companies trying to gouge the
non-USAans
NORP
and let the
USAans
NORP
off cheap !
I 've got a
14 year-old
DATE
Siamese
NORP
who grazes throughout
the day
DATE
on Senior 's High Fibre food . But , you 've got to gravitate to what grabs you . Were antimatter observed to gravitate oppositely to that of regular matter , the discoverers would be on the fast track for a
Nobel
WORK_OF_ART
. So , why did
Jesus
PERSON
choose you ,
Ray
PERSON
? Thus it will change the data intelligence structure of certain aspects of the host and will also allow itself to carry itself along lines of the hosts external connectors by presenting themselves when objects it has attached to within the host are retrieved by the host knowingly or unknowingly .
I carry a spare bolt to use with the
BFH
ORG
to pound on for stuck ones . so I choose MONEY Goddess ! The consequences of the choices we make , and the family and friendships that carry us through ... . Whichever option you choose , pick the one that best suits your situation and lifestyle . His words carry a poetic ring , though in his native
Eyak
ORG
tongue his name
Jamachakih
PERSON
translates loosely to mean "
The Little Bird That Screams a Lot and Wo n't Shut Up
WORK_OF_ART
. "
Again , choose one with integral
Freeview
PERSON
tuner . Scientists compared the men 's Y chromosomes , the tiny structures within cells that carry the genetic instructions that tell a developing foetus to become a boy . Use the buttons on the picture thumb nails and choose photos on the left side to see a wider virgin of it . They cover large distances , using far less energy than almost any other large land animal . Residents are by no means universally satisfied : Health care activists in both states say the programs are rife with flaws , including deductibles that cost families
thousands of dollars
MONEY
per year .
Printing manuals would cost more than calculator itself if done in
Kinko
GPE
. Place the jars on a rack , without them touching one another , in a deep canning kettle with boiling water to cover by
1 inch
QUANTITY
.
The Congressional Budget Office
ORG
estimates that reducing gasoline consumption
10 percent
PERCENT
through an increase in fuel economy standards would cost producers and consumers
about $ 3.6 billion
MONEY
a year . I ca nt cover these myself , but perhaps someone else can do a quick demo of a tool they use ? It seems that when they catch the officers doing something bad or wrong , the law suit payouts can cost the city too .
The printed specs cover only through
1996
DATE
. The environmental impact study could cost
millions
CARDINAL
alone . Compared with larger headphones that cover the entire ear , some insertable headphones , like the white ones sold with
Apple Computer 's iPods
ORG
, increased sound levels by
up to
CARDINAL
nine decibels
QUANTITY
. I was also given
Neulasta
ORG
, and
Arensep
PERSON
-LRB- do n't know if I spelled it right
-RRB-
PERSON
in conjuction with the treatments . But it is part of CDMA2000 , which does n't suck power as badly as
3
CARDINAL
G .
Poor
Jordon
PERSON
did n't stand a chance , with a mother who not only gave him a completely stupid name , but did n't even know how to spell it properly . It sucks ... . Cheers ,
Phil Phil Wilson
PERSON
wrote : but did n't even know how to spell it properly . they suck ,
IMO
ORG
. she sucked the life right out of me .
Serial killers ca n't spell . The student at the blackboard spelled it correctly , but the card
Quayle
PERSON
had been handed read " potatoe . " The reason the whole subprime market was so attractive was because of the unregulated ability to suck people into thinking they could afford something they could n't and by the time they realized it , it would be someone else 's problem . I want to add ,
-LSB-
GPE
from my book -RSB- , a little more detail :
Kempner
PERSON
was disarming a mine when one of his men accidentally tripped another mine .
Erica
PERSON
; I use this recipe often , and it was approved of greatly by my veterin - arian :
1 cup
QUANTITY
boiled chicken , beef or fish
1
CARDINAL
tbsp .
Or the times I tripped on mushrooms on cold
winter nights
DATE
, laying on a frozen pond , looking up at the stars and feeling my mind bend . What you have right now is partisanship on
Capitol Hill
LOC
that quite often boils down to insults , insinuations , inquisitions and investigations rather than pursuing the normal business of trying to pass major pieces of legislation , such as appropriations bills , and to try to work in such a way as to demonstrate to the
American
NORP
people that
Congress
ORG
and
the White House
ORG
can work together . As expected , momentarily connecting this leakage current immediately tripped the garage
RCD
ORG
.
David -
PERSON
who gets really annoyed when the volts drop so low his microwave can hardly boil water
Esther & Fester Bestertester
ORG
wrote : I 've got a
240
CARDINAL
v. electric water heater and a need for a
208
CARDINAL
v -LRB- single - phase
-RRB-
PERSON
one . Small parts I boil with a dab of automatic dishwasher detergent .
Today
DATE
I got pretty winded rocking away in my chair so I went upstairs for a nap but tripped over my beard which is the same color as the fog before my eyes . My goodness , you tripped all over yourself there to try to defend your rather weak -LRB- and yet very common on this newsgroup
-RRB-
PERSON
position that it 's all Righetti 's fault that these scrub pitchers pitch like scrubs when they come to the big leagues . It seems like you 'd have to eat an awful lot of steamed shrimp and boiled veggies to get
up to 500
CARDINAL
calories ! And it seems I failed to localize the datadir path . I would n't want you to think I mellowed any .
Warwick , a cybernetics professor at
the University of Reading
ORG
in
England
GPE
, is involved in ambitious and dangerous experiments in the quest to meld man and machine . In any event , it remains to be seen whether or not he 'll mellow out . If so , that would be perfect for those who feel the need to meld the new with the old . The smoke does n't really mellow out as much as the rest of the flavors . For the record , his tactic seems to be to lull you into a feeling of security by saying things like
& quot
LOC
; You can have this one , I do n't deserve it. & quot ; or
& quot
LOC
; I 've got nothing left , this one is yours . '
Perhaps they were just agreeing with you in order to lull you into a false sense of security and then they willl later stab you in the back . I hope to God that speying mellows the pair of them or they will be the death of me yet ! The reason the resolution matters is not because of its impact on the president , but on
Congress
ORG
; not because it will goad the president into action , but because it will force
Congress
ORG
to face its own fears . This book has a picture of a lovely
two
CARDINAL
-branched pewter candlestick with enamel insets , designed by
Archibald Know
PERSON
for
Liberty & amp
ORG
;
Co.
ORG
, circa
1905
DATE
, and it looks like it gleams . I used to glide in the
UK
GPE
a long time back but really have no desire to spend
all weekend
DATE
away from the family ! !
I 'm willing to accept that you mean well , and are trying to goad
Habari
ORG
development to pay close attention to an area that you feel is of utmost importance . A Cruise Through
Royal Caribbean 's
ORG
History By shravankumar -LRB- shravankumar -RRB- You guessed it : it'sa
Royal Caribbean
ORG
cruise ship , a mass of
one hundred thousand tons
QUANTITY
, that glides on the ocean between
Florida
GPE
and the islands of the
Caribbean
LOC
on a regular basis . Here is one I want to classify as fair but I do n't want people to get in an uproar ; I hope people will vote on this one P 245 Mention that
Lockhart
PERSON
was pairing
Neville
GPE
with
Justin
ORG
and
Snape who & quot
ORG
; glided over like a large malevolent bat & quot ; and says
& quot
PERSON
; a bad idea , Professor
Lockhart
PERSON
. They would try to convince me to come back to the meetings , It 's a frightening experience to watch their eyes glaze over whilst they parrot quotes from their literature and the bible and completely reject reality . Do n't know if it 'll be that high , but as they 've shown in the past , they 'll take any chance at all to gouge .
He also followed the
SC
ORG
into that turn at
SC
ORG
speeds as if he was just to glide through , there was no indication that he would do a brake warming there , especially not the way he did it . By contrast , the
US
GPE
orbiter is unpowered and must glide to its landing . Of course , on the other hand , big-power
Sporties
ORG
would occasionally flex the trapdoor and blow the lower rear
quarter
DATE
out of the case . The warmth of the power of the God fertilizes the
Earth
LOC
and so the earliest beginnings of spring occur . Do n't fixate on each and every topic that comes up .
The bimini top : How it is attached to the boat , how much it flexes the windshield at the attach points , and how much noise it makes because of the flexing . How often do I need to fertilize it ? If you are looking at a set of polybushes and you can easily flex them in your hands then they are too soft . It is also a good time to fertilize your deciduous trees too . The incident occurred
Friday
DATE
,
the same day
DATE
Russian
NORP
President
Vladimir Putin
PERSON
flexed his military 's muscle by placing strategic bombers back on long-range patrol for the
first
ORDINAL
time since the breakup of
the Soviet Union
GPE
.
Do n't fixate on blood sugar control . He rarely twitches or flexes his muscles or in any way deviates from the posture he has assumed early on . Being appreciative of their role ,
Islam
NORP
harmonizes the individuals and the
State
ORG
in such a way that individuals have the freedom necessary to develop their potentialities and not to encroach upon the rights of their fellowmen . same fellow who in
1614-1616
DATE
-LRB- along with the
Combe
PERSON
brothers and the
Stratford
ORG
man tangentially involved
-RRB-
PERSON
promoted the highly controversial plan to enclose the commons in
Welcomb
GPE
to graze sheep . I think it was because everyone who saw him gushed over him like nobody 's business .
Haveman
ORG
nearly gushes over the level of
U.S.
GPE
support in
Iraq
GPE
. A spinout on
the Snohomish River Bridge
LOC
gummed up traffic . & quot ; I ca n't believe I 'm on the same stage as
Angela Davis
PERSON
,
& quot
LOC
; she gushed . He claimed his cows were so fascinated by the train that they would n't graze anymore , but just stood looking down the tracks
all day
DATE
, waiting for the next train to whizz by . is also possible that the missing details would make it even more difficult to harmonize the accounts.Of
But it was not the lesson
Hamas
ORG
needs right now as it gropes its way towards political reality and acceptance of
Israel
GPE
's right to exist . Let 's continue to harmonize . I do n't think I ever heard of quick-ratio gears in a truck , and the guts do n't interchange . My question -LRB- after all that ;-
-RRB-
PERSON
, how stiff is
Berkley Fireline
ORG
in the
30
CARDINAL
lb test and is it really easy to knot ? Just as it was interesting to hear
Knopler
ORG
's voice intertwined with miss
Emmylou
PERSON
's , I think it 'd be interesting to hear
Springsteen
PERSON
's and
Knopfler
PERSON
's very unique styles of lead-guitar on the same song ... it 'd
In
Talwar
ORG
, in
1909
DATE
,
Veer Savarkar
PERSON
wrote that the idea of writing the book on
1857
DATE
was not merely to create a record of history , but to kindle burning passion for struggle . There were a large number of makers , and few of the feet will interchange . I think he was primarily a man who could intoxicate himself with his own words . If you laminate them , here 's a tip : pre-fold your map where you want the creases , then laminate . The spools interchanged with
63
CARDINAL
model .
-LRB- I think that 's the one ; I tend to jumble his titles . -RRB- These men wo n't scruple at the inevitable nuclear weapon . Before I got her fixed , she managed to scent up the entire livingroom furniture . The dog is sent off in the direction of the fall , in a straight line , of course , and if he remains on that straight line , he 'll eventually either see or scent the fallen bird , and then he 'll pick it up and return to the line with it .
LOL
ORG
The head cat lifts it 's head as it scents danger. .
If you had to make the enchilada sauce from scratch , that 's no big deal either , just soak dried chiles overnight , or take fresh chiles and de-seed and de-vein them , scorch them in a frying pan with some oil , then stick them in a blender and puree them . I thought for sure you 'd scorch
Gary Burn-more
PERSON
. With ONT on the pull - you will have to scavenge them from another chest , if you can find one . But neyther did remaine A Cloude wherewith to shade the
Earth
LOC
, nor yet a showre of raine . It 's when they run it down
first
ORDINAL
in order to get a better price , this is what makes most dealers seethe .
The hot sun seemed to intensify , and
Mal
PERSON
reached up a hand to shade his eyes . To
this day
DATE
,
Ditka
GPE
seethes over it . In addition ,
one
CARDINAL
multigenerational prostate cancer family that segregated the c.1592delT Do n't get me wrong , I 'm not trying to segregate the group just make it more efficient . As soon as the government confiscates or sequesters a house of a loan borrower , their next attempt is to sell it off .
The & quot ;
McDiesel & quot
ORG
; scheme has to compete with existing uses for fryer fat. A careful design of this might segregate materials into
three
CARDINAL
grades , the burnables , the landfill garbage and the recyclables . If you saw the mounting and the light fixture and shade it would be hard to imagine that this is a made up piece . In the context of
Shakespeare Myth
PERSON
, & quot ; the last trumpet & quot ; heralds the end of
ArchetypalStratfordian MAN-Beast 's
ORG
& quot ; houre vpon the stage & quot ; , as in
83829 54528 138357
DATE
. He herds his basketballs around the yard until he gets too hot then he 'll run up to the patio , throw himself into the tank and have a nice long drink of his own bathwater . It 's a normal day - at least , as normal as a day inside
Hyades Wizarding School
ORG
can be , when suddenly an alarm sounds - an alarm that heralds shocking news : The ancient and powerful
Wands of Procyon
ORG
have been stolen from
the Torchwood Room
FAC
, where they were displayed , on loan from
the Royal Wizarding Museum
ORG
.
It seems that these
Corgis
PRODUCT
naturally want to herd . Even the pressbook for NIGHT heralds the fact that it takes place in the & quot ;
Eileen & quot
ORG
; apartment .
Pepe
PERSON
's arrival at
Inkaterra
PERSON
heralded not only a new phase in the conservation plan , but a new romance for the bear . Montgomery split up with the other
Daytonians
NORP
in
Long Beach
GPE
,
Calif.
GPE
, and hitched a ride with a trucker who delivered him to the corner of
Haight
GPE
and
Ashbury
PERSON
streets in
San Francisco
GPE
, ground
zero
CARDINAL
of the counterculture . COSATU welcomes the unity displayed by the
two
CARDINAL
MDC
ORG
factions on
Sunday
DATE
, who , for the
first
ORDINAL
time , appeared in a public event together , and hopes that this heralds the emergence of the broadest possible mass movement in support of democracy and human rights in
Zimbabwe
GPE
.
few scientists will touch cold fusion because it is now seen as wacky and therefore a career - wrecker . You mean like the " friend who rides " who told me to never , ever touch the front brake lest I die instantly ? Change Subject lines , and
2
CARDINAL
. Trim your posts Lots of good information otherwise is lost !! Then AFTER
Ramirez
PERSON
touched home and stood up , but BEFORE the ump made the call ,
Torrealba
GPE
tagged him AGAIN , this time with the ball . He followed the well - known candidates , who trimmed and tacked : The crowd ,
a few thousand
CARDINAL
of the party diehards , was getting a close look at the men seeking the
Democratic
NORP
nod , and not liking what it saw .
I 've used them to display messages with attachments , to trim my mail folder size .
12
CARDINAL
or
13
CARDINAL
shades , insulated gloves , full leathers , even a bucket of water to toss the stinger in after it gets too hot to touch -LRB- with gloves !
-RRB-
PERSON
. Someday I 'm going to trim all the non-operative links , so I 'd appreciate it if you would let me know what 's not working -- that is , if anyone is reading this . I trim my pigs ' nails about once a month . would n't mind seeing if he has one , he is still young enough I could if he would only let me touch his tummy ...
It passes over fallen logs with long , noiseless leaps ; it creeps serpent - like beneath the wreck left by a
summer
DATE
cyclone ; it crosses the barren reaches of oak openings , where the shadows cast by huge pines adjacent mingle in fantastic figures ; it casts a shifting shadow itself as it sweeps across some lighter spot , where faint moonbeams find their way to the ground through overhanging branches . So I suppose a swept back bowl gouge and a
34
CARDINAL
" round nose scraper for cleanup . My point is that if we have to ' prove ' it by looking at all the possible ways a map might be coloured , we can thrash through it eternally , maybe . The T formation swept most the
NFL
ORG
in
the 1940s
DATE
.
Beagle
PERSON
and the related programs sit there and thrash your drive constantly while building up index after index in your home directory .
It was quite an experience --
11,000 miles
QUANTITY
in
eight days
DATE
-- and no matter how my
two
CARDINAL
compatriots and I thrashed that thing , it kept on truckin' .
Alan Liefting
PERSON
wrote : Could it be that the apparent shocking increase in life - threatening natural disasters -LRB- floods etc
-RRB-
PERSON
is tied to a global increase in population -LRB- and in news dissemination
-RRB-
PERSON
so that a flood that might have affected
hundreds
CARDINAL
of people , many of whom might have been able to get out of the way , now sweeps through densely packed urban areas causing vastly more damage and loss of life ?
Leo
PERSON
and
Peter
PERSON
can surely thrash it out -- playing the genealogical leapfrog they so delight in . A team that does not come roaring back and soundly thrash the very competitive Packers will likely be eliminated from the playoffs by
the middle of October
DATE
. The reporter later wrote of the event : " As the mad storm swept round the cars the blast was deafening .
In fact , I 'm quite sure the world could n't handle the mayhem these
two
CARDINAL
clowns could create . Famed author
Amos
PERSON
Oz once declared " we will lay down on the roads , block the crossings , and blow up the bridges to stop the transfer of
Arabs
NORP
. " You can sort this data and create summary tables for analysis . Web - based applications create Web content for Web browser clients . You are talking about a
State
ORG
that just recently deported an
Imam
PERSON
who , on his application for citizenship did n't declare his affiliations with a group that was n't on a terrorist watch list at the time .
and ' for what purpose did God create me ? ' -LRB-
Japan
GPE
will attack the
Philippines
GPE
, unless the
U.S.
GPE
explicitly declares its neutrality . -RRB- I declare myself confused , and I 'm not happy about it . Error the other way , and you mechanically may as well declare PC victory up front without even fighting the battles . If that 's true it is another indication that maybe we should n't blame commuters who seek far flung housing any more than we blame employers who create massive needs .
Rather than cutting a
one
CARDINAL
- piece that 's double indexed , just buy a
two
CARDINAL
piece , adjust to the angle you want and glue it in place . Wait to my dogs means stop all forward motion until I call you or redirect you .
One
CARDINAL
solution that has been suggested to the controversy over
Iran
GPE
's nuclear program is for it to abandon its efforts to enrich uranium and just buy the necessary fuel from
Russia
GPE
. In the
U.S.
GPE
, under the
FTC
ORG
regulations , one has
up to 30 days
DATE
to cancel and return anything they buy via internet . If
Syria
GPE
wants to avoid the fate of
Iraq
GPE
they should consider pulling out of
Lebanon
GPE
immediately and call off their alliance the latter of which probably wo n't happen but the former might under the right persuasive methods .
You have
two
CARDINAL
options - buy the expensive bags that hold
a full 8
DATE
oz , or put less in the
Playtex
GPE
bags . You call cross posting and spamming marketing ? If interested , call my cell at
703
CARDINAL
-868-7896 . I am proud to call other scholars my friends also , whether they 're
Oxfordians
NORP
or Traditionalists . So , I have no option but to buy sleeping pills from an online pharmacy .
Or suppose they leaked the identity of a
CIA
ORG
agent in order to punish the agent 's family . They all tell tales .
Neil Young
PERSON
tells a story of driving his vegetable oil -LRB- or whatever
-RRB-
PERSON
powered
Hummer
PERSON
around and getting razzed by the greenies for it , and then -LRB- I can only suppose with sinister delight
-RRB-
PERSON
telling them how much greener he 's drving than they are . I want to make clear my position : anonymous bloggers are ok in my book , and maybe more than ok when they blog anonymously to tell the truth because if they revealed themselves , they would be cut off from viewing the truth . I suppose personal preference comes in when it comes to ' diffraction ' spikes .
And yonder comes the famous Mr.
MOLE
PERSON
, of whom you so often have heard your father tell ! ' Can anyone tell me its value ? I suppose we ca nt always be exchanging grid squares and signal reports . Well I suppose
one
CARDINAL
atom helps a flower . Thanks again
Leslie
PERSON
- and please tell
Allan
PERSON
that he is a great host !
Good thing there 's no actual crime in
Ohio
GPE
, thereby freeing
45
CARDINAL
of the local cops to spend an afternoon preventing the consumption of beer on the Little
Miami
GPE
river . On the Digitrax DH12x series , those
two
CARDINAL
extra wires serve no purpose and I snip 'em . Like what if you had
one
CARDINAL
more day to spend with
Uncle Ben
PERSON
, something like that . That includes permitting spotting that helps us rural folks presence be known so we can make more contacts and not spend hour on hour listening to nothing but white noise . There 's the indefensible horror show at the
Army
ORG
medical centers , the conviction of
Libby
PERSON
and the coming conflagration when
Dumbya
PERSON
pardons him , the pressure from
Congress
ORG
to tell the truth about
Iraq
GPE
, the ongoing shame of the disaster in
New Orleans
GPE
, the shameful prostituting of junk science to serve politics ...
Lex Frieden
PERSON
, a disability advocate who served with
Maggie
PERSON
on the presidentially appointed
National Council on Disability
ORG
15 years ago
DATE
, describes
Maggie
PERSON
as supremely " gracious " and seldom critical of anything . I serve myself , sit down , and there 's no milk ! --
Dale Carnegie " Life
ORG
is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise . Pour the sauce into a nice serving bowl and serve with the coconut shrimp . Allah
SWT
ORG
, however , is saying that these believers spend a very precise , well defined and mathematically known portion of wealth for the needy and the poor .
My intention is to rack it
next weekend
DATE
if the
SG
ORG
drives below
1.0
CARDINAL
. Most of them rake it up and put it in bags . I typically rack off the fruit after
two weeks
DATE
. Besides , I already knew how to rake dirt . I wait until fermentation has slowed significantly then rack to a
3 gallon
QUANTITY
carboy to let it complete fermentation and then clear .
It Automatically Rakes In
Hundreds
CARDINAL
Of Pips ... The
third
ORDINAL
installment , "
The Bourne Ultimatum
WORK_OF_ART
, " opened
last weekend
DATE
and raked in
$ 70.2 million
MONEY
at the box office . I racked it to secondary after a week -LRB- was mostly done with ferment
-RRB-
PERSON
and it 's been in there for
week
DATE
so far . Since that
RAM
ORG
archive pissed me off with inaccurate number of posts and placed me at
Number 8
LAW
of all - time I immediately racked up the posts to move back into my rightful
Number 4
LAW
slot . I 'd say to rake them away and put them on the soil where garden or landscape beds are located .
nate you will notice that I resisted the urge . '
First
ORDINAL
impressions you make help build momentum and success . ' The purpose of pseudonymous authorship , as I construe it , was in fact to cast a veil over the local landmarks which would allow readers to easily make such associations between the characters of the play and persons of
de Vere 's
ORG
own life . I did notice another peculiar thing about my
Ram
PERSON
. it 's always the idiots that make this claim defensively I ca nt count the number of times i spammed my high aggro spells then switched into drain tank mode to keep the healer alive .
In fact , if you re-read what i was responding to , you will notice an unsurprising lack of references . The secretary - general reported that these problems of poverty and disparity make peace unpredictable . They barely notice the climb out of
Huddersfield
GPE
. Cut and dried they make fairly decent firewood and they are fast growers .
One
CARDINAL
thing I notice about recumbent riders locally is that they are overwhelmingly obese middle aged males .
They are
BOLD
PERSON
, wildly innovative and know how to scale the sort of infrastructure required to pull off this madness . A friend once sealed dry ice in a glass tube to watch it liquefy , which takes a lot of
psi
ORG
's . Fill the pie with stew , place top crust and with a fork , seal the crusts together then poke holes in top . Whisk egg with water ; brush some over joints , pressing to seal . Is there anyway to scale this voltage up to the full range ?
Then it is time to cluster and scale your architecture .
Diego
ORG
converted
two
CARDINAL
penalties as the
German
NORP
visitors held off a determined
Dinamo
ORG
team to seal progress . Indeed , the long - term success of a corporation depends on having a model that scales up profitably . : The
US
GPE
should scale down its : military since ultimately , this is in large part aimed at securing : access to crude oil at prices the
US
GPE
think suit its needs . He was quoted as saying , " by no means does it seal the deal , but people do want to sit down and talk with you .
Actually enforcing these policies may make customers very reluctant to buy anything , so many stores have much more liberal return policies although according to the local news in
Texas
GPE
, some stores are cracking down on people who return a lot of stuff . Are n't you supposed to report table closings like this to O Kb ? In
Canada
GPE
,
Inuit
NORP
hunters report that an increasing number of polar bears look emaciated because the shrinking ice cover has curtailed their ability to fatten up on seals . Less consistently , in hot weather
70
CARDINAL
-
90 degrees
QUANTITY
, the idle speed will randomly rise to 2000 - 2500 RPM and randomly return to normal some time later . They also exhibit all the behaviours normally ascribed to humans in pain and they report feeling pain though they do tend to use a more limited and non-verbal vocabulary .
He stated that most individuals could return their vision from
2070
DATE
to
2020
DATE
, but he felt that returning vision from
20320 to 2030
DATE
was hard to believe . It would also , by extension , be extremely nice and helpful if a support library would report said error to the calling application so that the application developer might have the opportunity to respond in a graceful manner to environmental conditions . Why would n't he return kindness for kindness ? Since
1978
DATE
, as a
post-Watergate
EVENT
check on
Richard Nixon 's
PERSON
power abuses , inspectors bypass the chain of command within their own agencies and report their findings directly to
Congress
ORG
. And then I quietly return to pondering about the shapely human female form , and other natural beauties .
A friend of mine who is a mechanic for
Citroen
ORG
told me that you know it 's time to replace a clutch when you have to press the pedal right to the floor to disengage it . A deviate is someone who deviates from the normal . I think it 's easier to get out of the pedal with black cleats since you do n't have to go past the float to disengage . The founders may have differed over the contours of the relationship between religion and government , but they never deviated from the conviction that there was an important and inseparable connection between the
two
CARDINAL
. If you are crossing systems , you need to use transposing gears in the headstock , and you ca n't disengage the
half
CARDINAL
-nuts without losing sync , so you pretty much have to run the lathe in reverse .
I believe it is time to disengage from the
Olmerts
PERSON
and Baraks . If he tells him about the bomb , I do n't know why the salesman would come back unless he knew how to diffuse it -LRB- and was willing to
-RRB-
PERSON
. If you have accepted the doctrine of ahimsa without a full realization of its implications , you are at liberty to repudiate it . The good thing about this is that if you rerun it , it does no harm . I then reran the import in the main wiki .
The other thing would be to try and reseat the card and see if that helps . Why do n't they just go ahead and repudiate the
US
GPE
debt ? I just reran $ PLAN9INSTALL with this change and it works like before -LRB- as expected
-RRB-
PERSON
. Mr.
Justice Rangnekar
PERSON
of
the Bombay High Court
ORG
observed in
the Hirachand Gangji
FAC
vs.
Rowji Sejpal -LRB- AIR 1939
PERSON
,
Bombay 377
FAC
-RRB- : & quot ; It is true that the
Jains
ORG
reject the scriptural character of the
Vedas
ORG
and repudiate the
Brahmanical
ORG
doctrines relating to obsequial ceremonies , the performance of Sraddhas and offering of oblations for the salvation of the soul of the deceased . More important , it repudiates the fundamental values of our country and costs
Iraqis
NORP
their lives .
Did you reseat it ? So I do not killfile all oafs because then my discussion becomes more of a monologue and that repulses other readers . Of course I was trying to elicit a response about the double standard we have in this nation about race . She helps him elude agents , and they fall for
one
CARDINAL
-another . Oh BTW : it 's bad feelings exactly what I want to elicit .
& quot ;
Resurrection & quot
ORG
; is an anagram of
Cretin
ORG
rouser -- which is exactly what
Lyra
PERSON
's post was , as it elicited an aneuendorffer114 ... I can tell you jokes that cross the panoply of the human condition , the point of which all will elude you . i got him out then and felt him all over and could n't elicit a pain response , but that does n't mean it 's not there . If you 're interested in getting muscularly larger but it is a goal that continues to elude you , you can finish up your reading with this post . The facilitator is in a legitimate position to elicit information from the group as a whole , as well as from specific individuals who are not forthcoming .
But that 's why it spread , and that 's a -- it increases the reservoir of potential support for the terrorists , who regard themselves as a vanguard , attempting to elicit support from others , bring others to join with them . Hymes ' office , which nurtures promising technologies that can be used by the military branches , plans to spend
$ 9 million
MONEY
over
the next two years
DATE
on the effort . He is feeling pressure from within his country to normalize relations with the
West
LOC
, and
Iran
GPE
-at-large wants the various sanctions to end and they do not want to be invaded by
U.S.
GPE
This is understandable . And this served to nurture a lack of accountability , a belief that he could do whatever he wanted . I also like to normalize it and while it can be done with mp3 it does n't work on most players and so I do that to the wav and then compress it to ogg or mp3 .
But it ca n't make sense to spend
10
CARDINAL
times as much to try to bring low-achieving students to mere proficiency as we do to nurture those with the greatest potential . They realized that we were talking not only about how to improve our lives as individuals but how to nurture a flourishing democracy . When I look at the recorded waveform , I 'm only peaking at
about 30 %
PERCENT
, so I have to normalize a lot to make the signal usable . However , they do want to nurture him into the position . The whole idea is to do the things that nurture you and your family and to do them in a way that does not leave you feeling overwhelmed and exhausted .
I 'd taken him down to the river for an off-leash romp , and he nosed out a pile of bones for me -LRB- well , he thought they might be for him , but we quickly sorted out the issue of ownership
-RRB-
PERSON
. He had a lot of work to do when that
SysAdmin
GPE
moved on to
& quot
LOC
; bigger and better
& quot
LOC
; and a new
SysAdmin
GPE
recoiled in horror at the idea of
WSH & quot
ORG
; on my system & quot ; and went on a search and destroy mission . The experiment reeks of
Uncle Al 's
ORG
GR-hole chirality . It was the moment when the president and his party recommitted themselves to an indefinite ,
decades
DATE
-long
Iraq
GPE
occupation , and when
the Iraq war
EVENT
was formally handed over to the next president , with forces near the maxed-out
2006
DATE
level . At it 's worst , it reeks of countries where you can be stopped at any time and place and asked to present your papers .
She recoiled . Wow , that just reeks of cheapskate . In
the 1990s
DATE
, we almost recoiled seeing images of
Bill Clinton
PERSON
, pudgy and pale-skinned , in drab polos on
Martha
PERSON
's
Vineyard
GPE
, in stark contrast to the dreamy pics from
decades ago
DATE
of
John Kennedy 's
PERSON
preppy ,
all-American
NORP
good looks as he sailed and summered . I tell you the truth , he will dress himself to serve , will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. & quot ; I was told that when the vehicle lost power and I reeved the engine - that this could have cause a possible failing lifter to fail .
Not being a
Chaplinista
NORP
I ca n't say , but I think this reeks of hyperbole . Therefore ,
Bush
PERSON
posits , we must stay the course in
Iraq
GPE
, no matter how bleak the situation becomes .
Lacan
NORP
posits a nature in contrast to
Foucault
PERSON
's nurture , and yet the result is the same . This thread began because
Kositsky
PERSON
and
Stritmatter
PERSON
posited research that claims a huge
Stratfordian
NORP
assumption , encapsulated by
David Kathman
PERSON
in his essay , was based on sloppy , shallow research , parroted
year
DATE
after
year
DATE
after year . This posits that there is nothing troubling about an animal species dying out because we have no commercial need for them .
& quot ;
Wovon
PERSON
man
nicht sprechen kann
PERSON
, daruber muss man schweigen & quot ; -
Ludwig Wittgenstein
PERSON
, Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus Dear
ORG
moron
Ingo Menger
PERSON
, In this thread , i posit some thoughts . Sure but if
one
CARDINAL
posits a difference between the media , then it is either demonstrated by using the best equipment for each or it is not . But I posit that if indeed this is an issue , it 's probably not one the state legislature can solve on its own .
Satan
PERSON
has a vast advantage in such cases to ply them with various temptations , which he is not wont to neglect : in such a case , persons very much need a guide to lead them to an understanding of what we are taught in the word of God concerning the nature of grace , and to help them to apply it to themselves . You 're not the
first
ORDINAL
to posit this about
Iran
GPE
, and this could apply to any country that finds itself on the outs with the
U.S.
GPE
Know thine enemy , and get yourself nukes if they do .
If any of the above happens , that might change the timeline of
9-11
TIME
but I do n't think that 's the case , unless
one
CARDINAL
posits a really , serious change of attitude . Consequently , it was not enough to kill the
Jews
NORP
-- he wanted to obliterate everything that was
Jewish
NORP
in the world . But I think that having a dog like that means you want a dog with that special drive and means that you should take special care to nurture it . Rather it would ossify the regulation that 's already in place . They nuzzle her .
They mean to keep that monopoly , and
Israel
GPE
's current leaders are pressing for
the United States
GPE
to obliterate
Iran
GPE
's fledgling nuclear program . This outraged the army , whose troops were sleeping in tents at a cost of $
1.39
MONEY
a day . I 'm no big abortion fan , but I think it 's going too far to take away all choice from the mother who must dedicate her life to a child she 's ill equipped to love and nurture for
the next 16 years or so
DATE
. You are also mislead if you really believe that the aim of
Hizbollah
ORG
is to obliterate every person from a certain race . Show me where he said he wanted the power to obliterate religion .
Postmodernism obliterates the distinction . Rather than just using lots of put statements in my view I want to try and use a debug hash or object to store all the debug data so that i can then render it on the page in a nice way .
Army
ORG
trucks rammed ambulances and blocked them from reaching the homes of those overcome by the gas . Hemoglobin combines with carbon monoxide to form the stable compound carboxyhemoglobin , which renders hemoglobin unable to bond with oxygen and results in hypoxia of tissues . He was also the focus of national outrage being a
British Merchant Navy
ORG
master who had been executed by the
Germans
NORP
for attempting to ram a
German
NORP
submarine .
Of course I could do the layout without the columns and just render columns ' divs in each view , but I think that is not the
Cake
PERSON
's way either -LRB- page 's layout should be defined as a whole in layout files
-RRB-
PERSON
.
Bellow
PERSON
has always tasked himself to render
American
NORP
characters and the result has been humanly complex , satirical comedy .
Lesnar
ORG
rammed
Angle
ORG
into the stairs and posted him . We are scared stiff that large corporates will go
the Linux Open Office ODF
ORG
way if we continue to try and ram
Vista
ORG
down their throats . A student would then say a topic - related sentence or question , and the ajon would render it in culturally appropriate
Thai
NORP
.
what if I made sample patterns , rammed them up , and poured in aluminum . Keep on bemoaning the loss of your friends and contributors , and as long as you continue to remain silent while
Fred
PERSON
writes the most horrible things , and folks like
Bugge
GPE
echo them , you are doomed to see this saga replay itself over and over again . Please check the req and send me the resume
ASAP Please
ORG
send the resumes to sku ... Vets see enough ferrets
these days
DATE
and , though we are loath to admit it , they are our cousins . Please see the instructions below for gathering signatures on petitions and forwarding the petitions on .
We postulate that
Israel
GPE
would need
6
CARDINAL
- 7 tankers minimum to send
24
CARDINAL
combat aircraft against
Iran
GPE
, a flight that 's not much farther than the round - robin between
Seymour
PERSON
and
Grand Rapids
GPE
. This might fix the above issue , etc. I 'm going to try that new spkg out along with the corresponding patch to see if it fixes the problem ... But really , the best thing to do , is be nice to your mail recipients and send plain text . Super-shear rupture velocities send more energy out to the sides , but do not generate the forward - directed " directivity pulse " . On
Dec 13
DATE
,
7:24 am
TIME
, jcbda wrote : See Below I have been getting this reply whenever I send a gmail to my daughter ... she is also a gmail user .
We see her equip herself effectively with that in mind . I wonder how the pro versions handle files that are in an " incomplete " state - I would have thought they 'd have to skip locked files . I 'd buy that theory long before one that says anyone from our own government would purposefully kill someone from our own country for little or now gain . Without these standards , anyone could attempt to manufacture batteries and handle all the dangerous materials that are used therein . In that case , the need is less for a larger army than for
one
CARDINAL
reorganized to better handle these new tasks .
Saying religion is what causes problems is like saying guns kill . Reach for , handle and manipulate objects . The city is sealed off from the rest of
Jerusalem
GPE
and troops are ordered to shoot to kill any curfew violators . Your hands are dripping with the blood of
thousands
CARDINAL
of
Iraqis
NORP
, victims of your bloodthirsty kin mercenaries aiming to kill a budding democracy in
Iraq
GPE
next door . Where is this world where the drunks only kill themselves ?
This is because I really need
Scribes
PERSON
ability to handle author and event cards in some cases . Ca nt you support your own allegations ? This is rather elaborate and should support most use cases . Having a default flavour does n't stop you adding your own , though they should keep things reasonably compact in the core
MM
GPE
. So I 'd like to politely stop encouraging it now .
Hamas
ORG
was labeled a terrorist organization before they were elected and it should n't have been a surprise when the
International
ORG
community minus the
Arab
NORP
countries stopped sending money to support these savage terrorists . I have code in
CherryPy
ORG
's shutdown task list to stop those threads . And neither do I support
Elizabeth
PERSON
's conjecture ! So it took me a while to stop yelling ' DITTO ! '
The Iams Company
ORG
is the only dog food company to financially support the quail restoration project on
the Ames Plantation
FAC
, home to
the National Bird Dog Championship
ORG
and for many years we have commissioned original oil paintings by
Ross B. Young
PERSON
, of the National Champion Bird Dog .
They also maintain that the operation will stop
Iranian
NORP
arms entering
Basra
GPE
. The
DWP
ORG
also built the
Castaic
PERSON
pumping generator plant which pumps water out of
Castaic Lake
PERSON
at
night
TIME
and can then release it through hydroelectric turbines to provide peak power in case of an emergency . -LRB- In
those days
DATE
someone had to pump large bellows backstage to provide air for the pipes .
-RRB-
PERSON
As soon as the instinct does n't contribute to human survival ,
Shakespeare
PERSON
punches out .
Rove
PERSON
has this faux hero pumped full to the brim with patriotism enhancement drugs , the political equivalent of
Barry Bonds
PERSON
.
VoiceMax
ORG
holds your transceiver at
100 %
PERCENT
modulation allowing you to punch through heavy channel traffic This does not apply to FM . Punch down the dough . But before you buy them , remove the pads and pump the piston nearly out and see whether there is any corrosion on the piston . A while ago I got in a seriously bad temper and punched a door twice , full force . Some extra bleed for the lunge can help punch through that last pool .
7
CARDINAL
. -RRB- Pump the tube to its working diameter . Maybe try the enterprise as a starting point . Better to try a mac solution . Both writers write about
Shakespeare
PERSON
, but not in such a way that would indicate a direct and personal knowledge . If you want , try some aluminum foil or a sheet of aluminum to reflect light back .
Yes , including those that you write your blog posts in . I just heard this and was thinking maybe it inspired
Dylan
PERSON
to write his atom bomb songs . While the
first
ORDINAL
two
CARDINAL
techniques try to prevent searchers from locating files , interdiction prevents distributors from serving them . Like you in written communications I explicitly write
the month
DATE
or possibly use YYYY-MM-DD to avoid the ambiguity . I also do n't usually write down approach clearances because you usually know what approach they 're going to give you ahead of time , and the last thing I want do to during the approach phase of flight is take my attention away from the panel .
SDomeone suggested he try pumping the brakes while the vehicle is sitting stationary and the OP responded that did n't help . But just as a community meeting got under way in the town hall in
early September
DATE
,
dozens
CARDINAL
of young men on motorbikes , carrying machine guns and grenade launchers , overran the meeting . My wife and I are looking for people to paddle with and learn from . But then I paddled my surfboard onto the Web site
over a few days
DATE
. I just do n't want to live or work with any of that swam , paddled or jumped a fence to get here . .
On
October 29th
DATE
,
Israeli
NORP
forces overran
the Gaza Strip
GPE
, and had it not been for
the UN Resolution
ORG
that ordered a cease fire ,
Egypt
GPE
would have fallen to
Israel
GPE
. The boatmen paddled us peacefully to the
Triveni
NORP
sangam point , where I quizzed
Rajkumar
PERSON
about the mythical
Sarswati
GPE
. I just paged throgh it , but have not read in detail . For
Fassihi
PERSON
's criticism of
Bush
PERSON
administration policy outraged some readers , who insisted that she could no longer write about
Iraq
GPE
with the necessary objectivity . It does n't require too much handwaving for a PoD -- just have , I dunno , a contingent of
U.S.
GPE
troops in the wrong place at the wrong time -LRB- or right place at the right time as it were
-RRB-
PERSON
get attacked and possibly overrun by
NVA
ORG
in a way that at least appears to the news viewer reader to be a case of blatant aggression .
At
04:59 PM 8242007
TIME
,
Bryant Weathers
ORG
wrote : I wanted to paddle from
Bete Grise
PERSON
to the point of the
Keweenaw
ORG
and back on
Labor Day
EVENT
, before school starts . I believe that a lot of property in the original
13
CARDINAL
states has been subdivided from plots that predated the grid system . However , their involvement with
Onetel
ORG
predated their association with the
SABC
ORG
as individuals . Therefore , because this
Peck
PERSON
segment predates the work of the authors of the
1930s
DATE
serialization articles in NEHGSR and is evidence , to be tested , just as
Tonge
ORG
's
1530 Visitation and Flower 's
ORG
1563-64 Visitation
DATE
, it is my considered opinion it , too , needs to be revisited . I thought
Philco Predictas
ORG
predated the
UHF
ORG
channels ?
It predated the full formal development of general relativity by
about four years
DATE
. The existence of many of their villages predate the
State
ORG
. For example ,
Paul
PERSON
alludes to an
Ascension
ORG
several times in his letters , which predate any of the
Gospels
PERSON
-LRB- including
Mark -RRB-
PERSON
. The duration of operation was
approximately one year
DATE
and predated the building of the
first
ORDINAL
IRT
ORG
by over
thirty years
DATE
.
DonnaB
PERSON
shallotpeel ,
T2
ORG
since
June 06
DATE
,
USA
GPE
,
last HbA1c 5.3 & quot
DATE
; The world expects something more of an
American
NORP
president than to prance around on a flight deck dressed up like a pilot. & quot ;
No way to have a peripheral to predate its intended host by
a couple of years
DATE
. Occasionally he rapped a child 's knuckles with a ferrule , but almost always did it in such a light way that he was quite popular , if not always obeyed . I feel he was trying to ream me . Once in a while , an administrator said something but , then again , he approved the course outline , so there was no reason to rag me because I was doing what I was supposed to .
One
CARDINAL
of my problems is that when it gets hot , the solenoid sticks and I have to get out and rap it .
For example , if you want your children to develop a love of learning and never have to rag on them again for not doing their homework and not getting better grades , simply ask them when they return from school , & quot ;
Teach
GPE
me what you 've learned
today
DATE
. & quot ; I 've got a list of
& quot
LOC
;
poems & quot
ORG
; recently posted to rap which could be included on the tape . NBAA quickly rapped
the Bush Administration
ORG
for the move : After
more than a year
DATE
of intense lobbying by the nation 's big airlines ,
the White House
ORG
has decided to introduce a budget that shifts airline costs to other segments of the industry and gives airlines more control over the air traffic system . But when the grandson of
the Holy Prophet -LRB-
FAC
s.a.w.a.
-RRB-
PERSON
was slaughtered then it could not contain itself patiently and out of uneasiness it quivered in such a way that the whole region was shaken by the quake .
Polish
NORP
the pushrod and ream the stand .
Seemed like a good idea to a lot of
ARIN
ORG
folks at the time , and it was starting to get some headway , when the
RIPE
ORG
and APNIC folks realized that it would deprive them of the future possiblity of reclaiming legacy space , which they promptly nabbed using the extraordinarily ill-considered
ERX
ORG
policy , which just took the problem and multiplied it by
five
CARDINAL
. this represents the closing prices normalized to
this year
DATE
. Even if you do n't use the plugin itself , you can nick its code for things like the method . It normalized within
a few weeks
DATE
. That 's why I nicked myself
BADFEATURES
ORG
to post this one .
In other words , adaptogens help the body resist the effects of stress of all kinds and help to normalize the workings of the body . If it were n't for his fiscally responsible spending , we would 've nabbed those
19
CARDINAL
men with boxcutters . The nurse on the line
last night
TIME
pulled up the records they have of me up there , got updates on meds and current treatments , and said they did likely eitther bruise or nick a nerve , and she also told me more warning signs to look for , and which ones should get me to the hospital in an ambulance if necessary . While what you say is correct , I do n't understand how or why the
OP
PERSON
's question that you have quoted , elicits that statement from you . IF the
IDF
ORG
ca n't even dislodge
Hezbollah
ORG
a couple of miles from the
IsraeliLebanon
ORG
border , there is no way that the Politico-Military leadership of
Israel
GPE
is going to sign off on an attack such as described .
This will Electrify Your MIND. ! And if canes have a psychologicalmental association for the , er , subject , then it would also probably not elicit the same kind of response . The story reported they tried several ways to dislodge the snake , and it would n't budge . At the same time , we can utilize friendlies in the press to laud the honesty of
the White House
ORG
, and to elicit sympathy for an administration that , after all , only had the nation 's best interests at heart . But my question is to those who are familiar with this deck -LRB- or the
9855
DATE
-RRB-
PERSON
and have been able to dislodge JUST
the white strip
GPE
.
I mean such a question as would elicit from him , if he had been a maker of shoes , the answer that he is a cobbler . wrote :
One
CARDINAL
of the advantages of being a honkey is that there is nothing you can call me that will elicit an emotional response . Dropped my SIII into low for a little while and now I ca n't disengage 4WD . I think it 's better we just disengage this . They have already stated that they believe that they have a mandate to exit
Iraq
GPE
without victory and disgrace this country and its armed military forces , not just in this country but to our enemies as well .
He would cover the
TE
ORG
for
about 5 yards
QUANTITY
then he would disengage , look back at the
QB
GPE
and patrol open space . It may not a problem that you disgrace HLAS with your lying -LRB- what , after all , is HLAS ?
-RRB-
PERSON
. And then have to pull off the highway a short time later and back up
a few feet
QUANTITY
to get the front end to disengage so it would stop vibrating . The most difficult to
dislodge
GPE
, appears to be a white , fiberous psudomembrane like that discribed for
Diphtheria
PERSON
. Even though it is the official position of his party to withdraw and disengage from
Bush
PERSON
's unpopular war in
Iraq
GPE
, Rahm Emanuel still grants interviews to reassert his support for the war to topple
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
even though the war is now recognized as
America
GPE
's gift to those who long for the growth of terrorism in
the Middle East
LOC
.
& quot ; Do not disgrace yourself in the eyes of
Merodach
GPE
by lying. & quot ; This is a retreat , though - so we should be more relaxed , and find time to rejuvenate ourselves , reflect on what we have done , our resources and capacities , how we can improve our capacities , our hopesvisions , and how we can prepare ourselves for the long haul -LRB- since our mission is not something we are going to be able to pull off in
just a year
DATE
or
two
CARDINAL
-RRB-
PERSON
. Thanks
G'day Mette
PERSON
, apologies for new thread , I had just completed a
OE & quot
ORG
;
maintenance & quot
ORG
; and can not regurgitate the orig thread .
Kerry SPECIFICALLY
PERSON
outed
USPNAC
ORG
airbases and repudiated the policy in the
first
ORDINAL
debate , which was seen by
60 million
CARDINAL
Americans
NORP
. It 's even better help when you regurgitate exactly what she said , but paraphrased .
wrote : & quot ;
George M. Middius
PERSON
& quot ; wrote :
Poopie
ORG
rejuvenates his Kroopologism infection . And only a silly
Kantian
NORP
would regurgitate such oxymoronic trash .
George Feodor
PERSON
remonstrated ; You can rest assured that we will control the
Iranian
NORP
nuke that will be ready in
the next six months
DATE
.
Therapeutic Uses
ORG
: Divya Triphala Churna detoxifies and rejuvenates your body . I do n't know if you 've seen parakeets , but they would preen each other ,
Pandora
PERSON
would regurgitate his food and feed
Tweety
ORG
.
He repudiated it years ago . I expect I could fudge
the fractional seconds
TIME
with the built - in library , but I ca n't see how to get dates in the past . I have also ridden with local , state , and Federal law enforcement officers in multiple jurisdictions and have personally observed ,
first
ORDINAL
hand , the enormous risks they face hourly .
Klein
GPE
's lawyer ,
Ryan Karben
PERSON
, unsuccessfully tried to convince the board that his client should n't face such stiff fines because he completed the repairs . I expect that formal notices and information will be coming out too , but I know that if I had n't been able to attend the meeting I would have wanted to here something quickly .
But an unfortunate number face the opposite fate , suffering repeated and often serious traumas - everything from abuse and neglect to persistent community violence to caregivers impaired by illness , alcohol or depression . While
Kelly
PERSON
said the Queen Mary 2 will be inspected to ensure the boat 's integrity , and
Riley
ORG
and the
two
CARDINAL
other men could further face NYPD charges , he chalked up the incident as a case of " marine mischief . " Investigators expect that clinical laboratory tests for the B7-H proteins may become available at
Mayo
ORG
to assist with the assessment of patients with kidney cancer by
late 2007
DATE
or
early 2008
DATE
, and then for prostate cancer patients shortly thereafter . The
Bush
PERSON
budget wo n't be received with many cartwheels in
Congress
ORG
, where the new majority will face some difficult decisions .
Any day
DATE
now I expect
Paul Crowley
PERSON
,
Richard Kennedy
PERSON
and
Elizabeth Weir
PERSON
to announce their own
first
ORDINAL
heirs of their
anti-stratfordian
NORP
inventions .
In contrast , I 'm sure we can expect hotter summers than were common over
the last century
DATE
, with a significantly enhanced probability of extreme heat and associated drought . If this were not so , then why do you continuously go to tanning salons to darken your skin . Then it darted
a thousand feet
QUANTITY
straight up into the air ; then spiralized downwards , and went eddying again round his head . You will expend a lot of energy before you darken your polishing cloth if you are working on pewter . I take care not to deafen myself or anyone else .
We tried to get close to him , but he darted off . Since it was generally used to darken the sky , that was about the only effect . He was terrified , too , of what would happen if he ever did work up the nerve to tell a girlfriend about himself ; he imagined how the smile would freeze on her face and her eyes would dart away , and how , when she looked back at him , she would no longer see him as a real man . I agree about BURNS ; my hopes were much higher than my reward . Only experienced candidates apply .
That law may only apply below
42nd Street
FAC
, actually . I agree and my fading memory recalls the same " will end under caution " and " there will not be another attempt at a green flag finish " comment . As the arms are thought to be density waves , I do n't think that such a restriction would necessarily apply . Demonstrate ability to adapt to structured environment and apply required procedures and policies . I do agree that bounded pointers would be useful , but C being what it is , I do n't believe it 's possible to make it completely safe .
As you come to a halt facing uphill you apply the hand brake . Got ta agree with
Flank
ORG
, I play exactly the same way with
Golems
GPE
. I have submitted reasons to agree or disagree with some of the positions . As soon as bears are invented I wish to be
one
CARDINAL
of the
first
ORDINAL
to learn their hairy , big clawed , rip your arm off , ways of living . Quite honestly , it was the
one
CARDINAL
thing that proved to me that astrology works and is quantifiable , quite beyond any interpretative attributions with which we might imbue the art , it really is also a science .
You showed your teeth like apes , and fawned like hounds and bowed like bondmen . & quot ; Thank you , but I do n't mean to intrude , & quot ; said the stranger & quot ; I see you 're busy , I 'll just go. & quot ; Still , you have to admit it 's a feat to simultaneously rip off
Darth Vader
PERSON
, Star Trek 's Breen and Cyclops from the
XMen
PRODUCT
with a single prop . Brains , you imbue us with the spirit of
camaraderie
PERSON
, free from the old concepts of class and ancestry , with the spirit of community , of the sacrifice of each for the other , of the spirit to accept privation for the sake of an idea , of the spirit that values truth above appearance . Not sure I ripped
6.0
CARDINAL
out properly via the
Uninstall
PERSON
as there are a ton of
Netscape
NORP
files hanging around .
The mobile phone comes with Disc2Phone software that lets you rip songs from CDs and transfer music from your computer , supporting formats such as MP3 ,
AAC
ORG
, , , and
WAV
ORG
. At the same time , he made it clear that the
JLP
ORG
was not prepared to intrude on people in the privacy of their bedrooms , even as the party sought to ensure that the laws of the land are upheld . she may rip her stitches . I get my
KLM miles
QUANTITY
and I can have a beer on the way home . Please give input .
Attendees can also get their contesting questions answered by the experts at
Q & A
ORG
sessions following each presentation .
SS
ORG
is OK if you get tire pressures exactly right - Corvette is far more forgiving . Signal boosters give me a headache - the ones on
DB
PERSON
do as well . That great feat alone should give
one
CARDINAL
confidence . I have compared other new manual IONs on the lot as well as an '03 ION which pleasingly went into all gears nicely and mine just feels tough to get into
2nd
DATE
gear .
I could n't find my copy
this a.m.
TIME
to give you further info . Another was told he was appointed to a federal prosecutor job to get resume experience so he could be appointed a judge . Chances are they have learned to channel his " gut " and give him policy advice that matches it . In other words , while heavy artillery can certainly smash big fortifications given time , it ca n't do it quickly . It makes the leather completely waterproof - all the spaces where water might soak in are now filled with oil .
Soak
PERSON
the slices of bread in the custard mixture until they 're thorougly soaked . This pit , ordinarily used to soak discarded clay sealings to recycle them into fresh sealing clay , was used to make sling bullets during the city 's final hours . Granted they smashed them all but Please . After you get the remains of the plug out , carefully remove the oil soaked cloth . If you got bad boogers on your machine it will find them and smash them good .
He jumped out the window like a crazy man , smashed himself on the ground , went through a thorn
bush
PERSON
, then he stood up and started to run fast to his car . If I were doing it today I 'd spread polyester resin along the edges where it can soak in to keep moisture from penetrating .
Anthony
PERSON
is referring to the band 's
2004
DATE
reunion jaunt with
Roth
PERSON
replacement
Sammy Hagar
PERSON
, which grossed
almost $ 55 million
MONEY
before ending on a sour note -LRB- at the conclusion of the run 's final gig , guitarist
Eddie Van Halen
PERSON
smashed
one
CARDINAL
of his guitars and quickly walked offstage
-RRB-
PERSON
. Do you actually think that you could rouse indignation in me ? They do n't rouse people , they have no visible effect .
This time around , maybe I 'll rivet some
Kool Brake Pads
PERSON
on them .
James
PERSON
The
first
ORDINAL
time I read Coriolanus , when I got to the part where Coriolanus tries to rouse his troups and then leads a charge into the city , but no one follows him and the doors of the city close behind him - leaving him
one
CARDINAL
soldier trapped in the city of his enemies , I laughed out loud . Either
NJG
ORG
is tactically stupid , or
NJG
ORG
is a plant to rouse the ire of the opposition .
Activist Mandeng
PERSON
said that the police refused to give him any information when he showed up at the commissariat to inquire about the arrested youths and sought to meet with them , but he managed to speak to them from outside the jail through a window of the cell where they were being held , thus learning their identities and what had happened to them . Next time I see the right people , I 'll have to inquire as to how they get around this .
But to make sure it was n't option -LRB-
2
CARDINAL
-RRB-
PERSON
, you should at least inquire further to find out what you can . I asked a man
the next day
DATE
as he rode his horse passed if it was for sale and he told me to inquire in
Tampico
GPE
, which is where I am now . So you may want to inquire there . There was a young man who expressed his support of the war in
Iraq
GPE
because we have no choice but he inquired as to why impeachment was not being sought for the lies that started the war . WND inquired of
USNORTHCOM
ORG
whether the
U.S.
GPE
military 's involvement in the
Mexican
NORP
drug war , either directly or indirectly through foreign military aid , would involve
USNORTHCOM
ORG
.
She went to the captain of the campaign to inquire about them , and immediately recognized him . When I inquired about the problem -LRB- before I fixed it
-RRB-
PERSON
, I was told to check or just resolder
Q605
PERSON
,
Q606
PERSON
,
D690
PERSON
,
Q691
PRODUCT
and to check the
ZCD
ORG
and standby circuits . BTW ,
less than two hours ago
TIME
I walked into a
Radio Shack
ORG
, and the only reason I did so was to inquire about the battery grip in their streetside display window . He is trying to hustle you. & quot ; And I think if he is guilty of these charges , he should be required to pay a large sum of money to hush it up and make it go away .
Immobilize all moving parts . By this statement , I should be able , as a passenger in a car , to hoist my open can of brew in a salute to the
Fuzz
PERSON
in the next lane . They hustled through basic training and had enough time to think about what was right and what was not in the company 's operations in
Rafah
GPE
. I hungered for a process that would leave no stone unturned . ' I try to hydrate a lot in
the 3 days
DATE
up to an event .
That in itself may not be surprising , but a more interesting point is that according to lawyers interviewed by
the CS Monitor
ORG
it appears to be legal - in spite of all the economic sanctions against the country , and even though people know it will be used to hush up any mention of things like attacks on peaceful protesters. & quot ; If so , how long do you have to hum into the mic before you can start talking ? and she 's given him a solution to hydrate him , no good , a calcium solution , no good , A substitute food , no good a few others . I 've used it on a couple of other cars before , but I 've done a
Google
ORG
and read some horror stories where the nipple 's sheared off . Therefore , no one else will be able to understand it or shoulder the responsibility to implement or defend it .
Instead of a single company trying to shoulder the responsibility alone , the collaborative approach sees a group of companies , each able to donate something of value , working in conjunction with the government in order to create a solution that fits into the government 's plans for education as well as meets the needs of the community as a whole . Not all of it is
Nolan
PERSON
's fault , but he is the HC so he has to shoulder the blame . But the cost of it is that
ASEAN
ORG
also has to shoulder the burden of playing nursemaid to the wayward
Burmese
NORP
military and try to bring them in line . In addition to the categories of persons mentioned in
Article 13
LAW
of the
First
ORDINAL
and
Second Conventions
PERSON
, all members of the armed forces of a
Party
ORG
to the conflict , as defined in
Article 43
LAW
of this Protocol , shall be entitled to protection under those
Conventions
PERSON
if they are wounded or sick or , in the case of
the Second Convention
ORG
, shipwrecked at sea or in other waters . But not too vigourously because you do n't want to froth the surface and intruduce oxygen to the wine .
What 's the easiest way for me to be able to Ghost the
NTFS
ORG
partition . I furrowed my brow , lit a smoke , and explained to her , & quot ; Really now ,
Miss Butterman
PERSON
, I do n't have time for this. & quot ; What really frosts me is that
Texas
GPE
was at
one
CARDINAL
point the home of a large colony of
German
NORP
free-thinkers . Then they do it again and again , until it 's time to gallop out of the room and go do it somewhere else , or to fall asleep until someone offers food . I wo n't interject personal thoughts and try to slant them .
It 's not the judge 's job to slake your need for vengeance as quickly as possible .
CA-41
CARDINAL
slants the wrong way for me -LRB- in
Los Angeles
GPE
-RRB- but works fine for a
Sacramento
GPE
- San
Luis Obispo
PERSON
journey . And what does it say about the determination of the highest court in the land , and the government more generally , to now fortify all that ? It 's tempting to do this for all one 's units quickly , although it means that the player forgoes other options . It was
Ward
ORG
who was willing to wuss out and let the
Beav
ORG
forgo the
Brussels Sprouts
ORG
experience .
I will fortify My Own until
the day
DATE
has come , and it will come sooner than expected ... . Mash'had
Nabi Hussein
PERSON
, the holy site in
Ashkelon
GPE
, was leveled in
1950
DATE
, but the
Muslim
NORP
believers did not forgo it . They do n't age it in oak ; it 's just used to fortify the wine . If it is too low alcohol , you might need to fortify with a little everclear . If they want to be newsgroupies , then they should be prepared to forgo voting on what group users want .
When we cut off all attachment to thinking , then your mind and my mind are the same -LRB- " There are no worlds other than what appears when I shine " .
-RRB-
PERSON
someone shed some light on this for me ? Can somebody shine a light on this one ? To recognize the terror with which the human race needs to be more concerned , we need to shed the corporate media propaganda and look beyond the fairly small groups of determined , enraged individuals who have only demonstrated the capacity to kill relatively small numbers of the " good guys " in the
West
LOC
. If you shine red light on a green surface -LRB- say a laser pointer
-RRB-
PERSON
, what colour do you see ?
A closer look at how
the National Assembly
ORG
has functioned will help shed a little light on the status of democracy in the country . You 've still got soft - shadows like in the original HL2 , but shine a flashlight at
Alyx
PERSON
and she 'll cast another shadow as you 'd expect . God sent his
Son
PERSON
, the Lord
Jesus Christ
PERSON
, to die and shed his blood to free us from the
first
ORDINAL
Adam
PERSON
's curse and our own sin . : For my
second
ORDINAL
question , I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on the anatomy of a beak , and how it might evolve from a normal snout . On one hand , they really deserve some kicks where the Sun -LRB- our Great Enemy , curse Its painful photons
-RRB-
PERSON
does n't shine .
I tried etch yest , but it cupped badly . The latter is correct -- and it was the fact that they do n't belong there under
FHS
ORG
that jarred with me . Sorry for the long winded diatribe
today
DATE
, but I worry about our toleration of things that darken the future . He said that many of the problems had already been solved and that the provincial council had asked both the security forces and political parties not to intrude on the university campus . In mine , we know
Sanchez
PERSON
got caught , so that did n't have to be shown , we know
Felix
PERSON
is getting married , so the process of having to get to the church did n't have to be shown , the scene when
Sanchez
GPE
intrudes on the girl and her lover seemed kind of pointless in the
PCS
ORG
, yet in following the theme song in mine , it really gets the movie and his threat going .
He popped a
second
ORDINAL
inhalant and a
third
ORDINAL
, then cupped his hands over the patient 's nostrils to heighten the noxious effect . I think the
US
GPE
government has done plenty to intrude on our lives . The view through the viewfinder darkens so much that I ca n't tell about
DOF
ORG
.
Bertie Wait
PERSON
a second here ; could n't a sock puppet fly if we used a latex liner inside , filled it with
Helium
ORG
and tied it at the bottom before we let loose ?? That 's why most of the medical not socio-spiritual blame for
today
DATE
's rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products .
I presume with mylar , the hinge tape would fall away . Feathers fly over claim of
300
CARDINAL
bird flu deaths in
China
GPE
A top virologist has denied telling an international conference that
more than 300
CARDINAL
people have died from bird flu in
China
GPE
. Even the youths shall faint and be weary , and the young men shall utterly fall ; But they that wait for the LORD shall renew their strength ; they shall mount up with wings as eagles ; they shall run , and not be weary ; they shall walk , and not faint . The fire burns intensely and incessantly as what appear to be sparks or droplets of liquid metal fall far and away from it , still burning an almost white color , indicating that the fuel source is not used up . You must fly clear of obstructions .
Downwind is close enough -- no need to tempt fate and fly even closer . Will pigs fly ? The reason given by
KSFO
ORG
is that the use of audio clips violated copyright , even though the clips fall well within what is understood to be Fair Use . Many of us standing in the courthouse atrium did not bring our own identification . His
five
CARDINAL
companions , believing that he had abandoned his search and become undisciplined , left .
This ardent rapture is apparent when ordinary people become obsessed with surfing the Internet all night , or when less ordinary people start hacking into computer systems . I suppose we should thank global warming for bringing forward the day
Australians
NORP
need to revisit their whole way of life , at least we have n't entered
the final days
DATE
of demand outstripping supply . Here we bring just some points of these presentations .
Andrew
PERSON
, who will be honored
today
DATE
for his
11 - year
DATE
effort to become an Eagle Scout , plans to present the flag to his grandfather during that ceremony . Down here in
Texas
GPE
, trucks bring and cost serious money .
they would transform the situation , and minds along with it , and real gains would become readily visible . It may be a place I might have to fly to and bring my gear next time . Many older
German
NORP
Shepherds also become blind , but dogs deal with blindness a lot better than people . A pair one for X , one for Y of mirror galvanometers is the standard way to do this , although they can be tricky to drive to useful speeds . At the level of self - actualization , individuals have most physical and psychological needs met and are free to be altruistic and to develop their higher potentialities .
Some projects will require working with city environmental staff to promote recycling initiatives Work with schools , small businesses and multi-family units to develop and promote recycling programs . Why drive in your car to get to the department stores or fight the malls in this hot weather when you can get the best deals online ? Most people that now own huge mansions , have wonderful riches , and drive the nicest cars usually begin taking the road to riches in their spare time . Analyze , plan and develop build process enhance current build process . And whether the timing bothers you , certainly the sloppy drafting must drive you , a man of precision , quite wild .
This may well develop environmental ecology into a fully quantitative science , said
Raymond Orbach
PERSON
, director of
the department 's
ORG
Office of Science
ORG
, which supported the research . We drive our cars well past
250,000 km
QUANTITY
, which is
more than 150,000 miles
QUANTITY
. These strategic assessments should be used as they were purposely designed , which is to help policy makers develop and prioritize government actions . Sometimes it works , IF you know what you 're doing , but usually you just deform the seat and trash the pump . Here in
Arizona
GPE
, if you leave your music out in the sun for
just a few days
DATE
, it will decompose .
It is easy to deform things when you are acting stupid and take them out of context . It decodes binaries when it finds thems , it decompresses gzipped files . Decompose the waste by physicalchemicalbiological means . I do n't think that a vibrating tube is going to be able to deform it , especially with thick solder . start to decompress just thinking about it .
Albert2 : In the wind tunnel , for instance , there is practically no way you can simulate how a tyre deforms through a corner . Also , from doing due dilligiance on the
Intrigue
GPE
, I could n't help but notice that for
years
DATE
the vehicle was produced with alternators that flickered the lights , but
GM
ORG
did not address this for a long time . They flutter on both sides of the canal , in
Asia
LOC
and in
Africa
LOC
. pb blurb : There was a flash of light , the air flickered ... The designer will be able to
& quot
LOC
; flex their muscle & quot ; a bit creativity-wise since it 's still quite early in the process and the writer and I prefer a collaborative process .
I had heard of the island so much , especially from friends and relatives , there was no way my wife and I would forgo the side trip this time around . well , they 'll get a cold sweat running down their backs , and their stomach will flutter , and they 'll search their memories for anything that they might have done wrong , maybe said the wrong thing to the wrong person , had the wrong friend , went to the wrong place ... & quot ; I -- & quot ;
Inara
GPE
slowly fluttered her eyes open and closed her mouth . Then there 's a yearning , particularly in the old
Soviet
NORP
bloc , to seek
U.S.
GPE
protection as
Vladimir Putin 's
PERSON
Russia
GPE
flexes its muscles , giving rise to loose talk about a new cold war . She says it does flicker some , and I suspect that the t-connector for the trailer lights may be a culprit , but did n't have time to check
tonight
TIME
.
If you do n't have an engineering degree , your eyes glaze over when you read it ... so I 'm not going to read bollocks that makes my eyes glaze over simply because you demand it . Sometimes I want to talk about what 's going on in my game and if I do n't come in here to do it , I see eyes glaze over and smiles become forced as people start edging for the door ... . We 're not going to skimp on quality , but we are very focused to make
next year
DATE
. Encouraging but I wo n't let it be a reason for me to slack off .
The only problem is that some of the fabrics are wearing out - since I was a newbie I skimped on some of the fabric and the poor quality ones are developing holes . The rain slacked down . If it 's hot enough to sizzle water it may still not be truly too hot metallurgically , but it could also be . For some , an awareness of this exit strategy permeates the enterprise , allowing them to skimp on the niceties they would more or less have to extend toward a person they were likely to meet again . Mystery shrouds him .
As an attempt to save her life , he implants
Beebee
ORG
's robot microchips into her brain , but discovers not too long after that she is out of control . If you indent them once , they 'll be methods of the class . You see , God sent his
& quot
LOC
; spirit & quot ; down to impregnate my mother , and I was born . Agni is identified with the
Sun
LOC
and , more exactly , with
the Fallen Sun
ORG
that inflames the earth at the world 's end . it 's even worse than that , since fertilization is a process , and there is no way to tell when and if an ova has been fertilized , and most of the fertilized ova do n't implant .
Antonio Aceves
PERSON
, the director of the
Mexican
NORP
company charged with distributing the chip here , said that in
the first year
DATE
of sales , the company hoped to implant chips in
10,000
CARDINAL
people and ensure that
at least 70 percent
PERCENT
of all hospitals had the technology to read the devices . There are already a number of patients implanted -LRB- at other institutions
-RRB-
PERSON
with electrode arrays that stimulate the cochlear nucleus , the
first
ORDINAL
stop after the cochlea . It all would seem to point to the real possibility of an attack on
Iran
GPE
-- a move that would be a war crime , that would be a disaster for the
U.S.
GPE
, that would spark a global recession , and that would inflame the entire
Middle East
LOC
for
years
DATE
to come . Here are just
two
CARDINAL
examples : -LRB- 1 -RRB- The aliens seemed to impregnate , gestate and emerge from their hosts in a matter of
15 minutes
TIME
or so . As the
Venezuelan
NORP
representative ,
CVP
ORG
Executive
Eulogio del Pino
PERSON
signed the document , while
James Edmiston
PERSON
,
Petrodelta
GPE
president , and Vice Presidents Kart Nesselrode and
Kurt Nelson
PERSON
inked the text on the
US
GPE
side .
But you might want to re-look at that piece of paper - it might be better to inquire about
Verona
GPE
, rather than
Veroni
PERSON
. The judge inquires what is meant by a
Ghet
PERSON
.
Denise
PERSON
inquires . Here 's the latest desperate plea for attention from
the White House
ORG
: President
Bush
PERSON
said
yesterday
DATE
that he is considering a fresh plan to cut tax rates for
U.S.
GPE
corporations to make them more competitive around the world , an initiative that could further inflame a battle with the
Democratic
NORP
Congress
ORG
over spending and taxes and help define the remainder of his tenure . When I inquired about the results of the surgery , he gave me a brief explanation of what happened and I asked him why he did n't use that laser in the
first
ORDINAL
place instead of the
TUIP
ORG
.
There are many cat-related topics that will inflame , sadden or inspire us . Then , the
Buddha
PERSON
said to the venerable
Maha-Kasyapa
ORG
, & quot ;
Maha-Kasyapa
PERSON
, you go to
the Licchavi Vimalakirti
ORG
to inquire about his illness. & quot ; They were characterized by an amazing assortment of cams and bell cranks and suction tubes that inked the type , handled the paper , and actuated the press . You 've already posted all you know about driving , practically all of it MFFY and riddled with that special r.a.d . fails to take action they would not hesitate to revolt against the amended rules , it remains to be seen what the
Orissa
PERSON
government eventually does in this matter .
As the result of the establishment of the state of
Israel
GPE
, a bunch of
Palestinians
NORP
were displaced and they revolted . They believe they can do anything and that we have n't got the guts to revolt , but only to wage a war of words . However one might embellish this term , at
the end of the day
DATE
it refers to
one
CARDINAL
type of situation , namely
one
CARDINAL
center of authority ,
one
CARDINAL
center of force ,
one
CARDINAL
center of decision-making . The very premise of the show seemed to elude me . If one is destined to get poisoned by a snake at a particular time , heshe can not elude and has to undergo .
In order to engrave the vital principle of non-organization upon the minds of the
Bahais
GPE
,
East
LOC
and
West
LOC
,
North and South
GPE
,
Abdul Baha
PERSON
often spoke on this subject , with power and
authority & quot
ORG
; -LRB-
277
CARDINAL
-RRB-
PERSON
. The
Friedman
ORG
sisters got the idea to embellish
challah
ORG
two years ago
DATE
after making a
French
NORP
bread with apricots and hazelnuts . The girls had no reason to fabricate or embellish their original witness statements ,
Kelliher
PERSON
points out , & quot ; but they do now , when they 've got their parents talking to them for
the past two years
DATE
. & quot ; Unfortunately these seem to be few and far between , for reasons that elude most of us .
a few days ago
DATE
: I recently plunked down $
650
MONEY
to be able to get HDTV .
Of course those who have come from far away to plunder this land have no right to choose for this nation . But now , in one of the most concrete signs of the effect of a warming climate on government operations ,
the Coast Guard
ORG
is planning its
first
ORDINAL
operating base there as a way of dealing with the cruise ships and the tankers that are already beginning to ply
Arctic
LOC
waters . It was suggested that the
Aryans
NORP
plundered and destroyed this culture and were responsible for the sudden and possibly violent ending to it . Awful lot of people want to plunk down the money for one .
India
GPE
for example , was one of the wealthiest countries in the world until the
British
NORP
arrived to plunder it .
The reality , though , is I can ride to the
7-11
TIME
any time of day , any day of the week to plunk down $
3.00
MONEY
to get another pack , but I wo n't . The
49ers
CARDINAL
also need a big-bodied tank to plunk down in the middle of their defense since
Sopoaga
PERSON
does n't appear up to the role , at least on a regular basis .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
and his regime plundered your nation 's wealth . I would invite
Robert Allen Zimmerman
PERSON
to dinner , and ply him with lotsa of
pecan
NORP
pie , and slip some roofies in his drink , and say , Please Mr.
Dylan
PERSON
, I do n't wan na go to college . Also , check the voltages as reported by your BIOS , if those figures deviate too much from where they should be , then you probably need
the 350W Somewhere
ORG
on the interweb & quot ;
Bugalugs & quot
ORG
; typed : Is there any way that I can check on the load on the power supply and what would be a safe working load for the supply ? ? .
There was no need to deviate from the book . They are subject to
Islamic
NORP
laws that devalue them . It never deviates or it would not be a & quot ; solar return
& quot
LOC
; . It is possible , however , to calculate that
90 %
PERCENT
of this difference is likely to be due to the trend , and
only 10 %
PERCENT
to other factors -LRB- such as the deliberate choice of the poet to deviate from the trend on this occasion
-RRB-
PERSON
. I have , in fact , deviated from that practice frequenly in THIS forum , at least in discussions with h.l.a.s .
Keeping the above facts and factors in view ,
Dr Swamy
ORG
categorically submitted that the
Bandh
ORG
now called by the political parties on an issue which is a subject matter of the petition filed by him in
the Hon'ble Supreme Court
ORG
, was clearly unconstitutional and the political parties , especially the ruling party , can not be allowed to deviate from the process of law . I 've read all the books twice , and was cogniscent enough of where the film deviated from them . Laws enacted by the government of the
Reich
PERSON
may deviate from the constitution as long as they do not affect the institutions of the
Reichstag
ORG
and the Reichsrat . If people criticize the Board , no matter what it does , it devalues criticism . I would n't mind having a bit of bread in
the morning
TIME
, but I 'd need some gluten to puff it up a bit .
Given that advertisers who say & quot ; we 're giving it to you at $ x but it 's valued at
$ y & quot
MONEY
; tend to puff up y as high as they can get away with , then that computer must be a true P.O.S .
Marshall Woo-Wooo
PERSON
, he puffed , training hard
& quot
LOC
; I THINK I can , I THINK I can , & quot ; he cooed uproariously . His eyes spring open and he puffs his chest up against her . If he puffs up it 's to allow for more insulation . I think the problem has to be mechanical because the turbo still pulses with the management on or off .
In fact , he huffed and he puffed and said that it was not enough to carp and complain ; if I did n't have a solution I should keep quiet .
Comas
PERSON
are usually considered a bad thing , Dr.
Bad-Bedside-Manner
PERSON
said as he took a cigarette out of his mouth and puffed a little cloud of smoke . That pulse turned on a
Darlington
ORG
-pair transistor , which pulsed the solenoid . You just need to learn to ignore , meaning do n't even respond to the crap that permeates usenet . And thus in their languages , these jargons permeate throughout the language .
Is there any doubt the local
MSM
ORG
would plaster this all over the news if they thought it was true ? There he began his sacerdotal life , which would permeate all
Europe
LOC
with its light , and , from there , spread throughout the world . Walk with guruji
this week
DATE
and let his
Divine Love
WORK_OF_ART
and peace permeate your soul .
Today
DATE
, instead of
one
CARDINAL
fund that was at the epicenter of the problem , the problems are spread around the world among scores of funds and permeate the largest institutional and pension funds . it will petrify him .
This is something which permeates
English
LANGUAGE
society , which they are ALL responsible for , and which they can not escape responsibility for . In the same manner , the policies of the central government and the negative behaviors of its officials permeate every aspect of life in
Nigeria
GPE
. in a degree of cold which would extinguish the life of
one
CARDINAL
exposed to it in any woollen clothing. & quot ; When there 's a scandal about a former chief justice and his tenure in office , it 's a little difficult to surgically excise the man and spare the institution . We have a very short attention span , and have a very short burst of energy which easily extinguishes in the face of impediment .
Do we have to await a
third
ORDINAL
Pearl Harbor-911 before our sense of self-preservation and the preservation of our posterity is awakened and we excise the malignancy of
islam
ORG
from the face and body of mankind for once and for all ? Extinguish the life of the rec.antiques The combined
10C
CARDINAL
warming extinguished most life on the planet .
500
CARDINAL
volts will suport a much longer arc and will be a lot harder to extinguish . think Dr.
Dillehay
PERSON
-LRB- who discovered and excavated
Monte Verde
LOC
in
South America
LOC
-RRB-
PERSON
is one of the best when it comes to knowledge about the peopling of the
Americas
LOC
.
That means you have a agenda here , and seek to mislead , and misdirect , and misinform people .
Olympic Games
EVENT
have since become a rallying point for the players and athletes from all over the world to compete and people from varying backgrounds to mingle with each other . You 're the one who are desperately trying to muddy the water . They must pass through the grand-duchy of
Tuscany
PERSON
, and there the greatest danger menaced , for there My friends were pressuring me to dance , and to mingle , and at least go home with a phone number .
xxxxxxxx end of survey xxxxxxxx The scene moved on and we were able to see the city of
London
GPE
, in
England
GPE
, just as if we mingled with the crowds there . Granted I 'll have to mist the stuff but I do have those funky brads that might work in it . I can relate to
Joe
PERSON
and
Pat Utomi
PERSON
who is a
Surulere
NORP
boy like me - I was born on
Ogunlana Drive
GPE
, and I attended
Government Demonstration Primary School
ORG
,
1
CARDINAL
,
Onitolo Road , Surulere
FAC
where all
Nigerian
NORP
ethnic groups mingled as & quot ;
All-Nigerians & quot
ORG
; . I milled the
first
ORDINAL
mortise and was in the middle of the
second
ORDINAL
when the piece started vibrating and hopping . I may even motorize
this one day
DATE
, just for the fun of it .
It quenches thirst . No one would have been able to fully rely on this nation if we punted on
Iraq
GPE
, and this nation would have been sitting ducks for even more deadly terror attacks . If
Brian Moorman
PERSON
never punted another ball
this season
DATE
, he would still get a trip to
Hawaii
GPE
as the
AFC
ORG
punter in
the Pro Bowl
LOC
. So we punted - and we said , ' we ca n't do this , we do n't have the statutory authority , we do n't have the staff ' , we do n't have the time ' .
Robby Gordon
PERSON
pushes a driver who punted him out of the way and punts him back and
Nascar
PERSON
suspends him .
Allaah
ORG
willed that the
Quran
GPE
be what quenches the thirst for knowledge . The only way out is to pulverize them and get them out of the way , so intelligent people wo n't hurt Cut and quartered to flame like that , typical , and nothing out of the ordinary . I ground the rye on number
6
CARDINAL
click -LRB- out of
8
CARDINAL
-RRB- in my Champion
Juicer
PERSON
grinder . Surely if your design inclines me to want to hire you , you do n't want me to have to wait for a transition to finish loading
first
ORDINAL
!
Hearken , my people , to my teaching ; incline your ears to the words of my mouth . Social relations based on the physical aspirations of people will tend to incline towards narrow dogmas as the mind is preoccupied with limited and relative concepts of right and wrong , nationalistic and limited social sentiments . Harts ontology is really similar to
Tillich
PERSON
's , though
Hart
PERSON
does ground his better in the trinity -LRB- a real weakness of
Tillich
PERSON
's
-RRB-
PERSON
. Yes I can show that all
six
CARDINAL
are wrong but your annoying habit of posting the same material in several different threads inclines me not to do so here . All you need is an alligator clip to ground the brown / tan connector behind the battery .
After a long travel from here to northern
Japan
GPE
and
a couple of days
DATE
of troubleshooting , the problem was nailed down to a
FireWire
ORG
cable which did not have the shield adequately grounded to the chassis . If this is something you incline to ponder upon , then you may have now learned to trust your judgement , even if it was reflected in a simple form like , I 'm not all that bad as I imagined , after all . On
this day
DATE
in
1803
DATE
,
the USS Philadelphia
ORG
, a newer but smaller version of
the big late 18th Century
DATE
frigates , such as the still extant
USS Constitution
PRODUCT
, grounded off
Tripoli
GPE
and was captured by the
Barbary
PERSON
pirates .
Kinney
PERSON
's
ERA
ORG
edged back above
4.00
CARDINAL
in what is presumably his final start of the season . Alternately , have the large cardboard sleeve fold open -LRB- origami !
-RRB-
PERSON
and have a tray glued into the center , to hold the disc in place .
2
CARDINAL
-RRB-
PERSON
If you knit your socks on
5
CARDINAL
needles , then the knitting folds up neatly with the
4
CARDINAL
needles forming a nice bundle . Add to mixture in bucket and fold under gently until mixed . As the countries under colonial rule edged towards independence through compromise , or through bomb - tossing , many took heart in the statement of
Rustum
ORG
, meant mostly to protect the
Arab
NORP
world and
Egypt
GPE
in particular . Sprinkled it with some store bought mixed shredded cheese I needed to get rid of and some cooked spinach then folded it in half so I have a kinda flat stuffed meat loaf and put it in the oven .... Never Can snails be quickly edged out ?
Will McCorry
PERSON
edged out
Jean O'Shea
PERSON
for high score among individual entrants . wrote :
Naw
PERSON
,
Us
GPE
old hippies never folded anything , used elastics for that " far out " look . ; -RRB- -RRB- -RRB-
Andy Rowell
PERSON
-LRB- Oil Change International -RRB- notes
today
DATE
that the hugely controversial oil law edged closer to approval after
Kurds
NORP
said some key issues had now been resolved between them and
Baghdad
GPE
. So if weight is maintained with
2000
CARDINAL
calories , then eating
1500
CARDINAL
will reduce your weight . Then comes the movie TORA - TORA - TORA ... remember the lady instructor that joined up with a
Japanese
NORP
formation ?
I remember digging his grave and shoveling the dirt over it .
One
CARDINAL
of those was
Measure 91
WORK_OF_ART
, a
2000
DATE
initiative that would have allowed
Oregon
GPE
individual and corporate taxpayers to reduce their
Oregon
GPE
taxable income by the full amount they paid in federal income taxes rather than the limited deduction allowed under current law . I vaguely remember reading an article written by my late cousin
Jacob Tomaz
PERSON
Pereira
GPE
some years ago
DATE
. Maybe it was n't even a
weekly
DATE
show - I only remember the
one
CARDINAL
specifically - but I 'm pretty sure it was since it was something I recall looking forward to . I changed which supermarket I normally shop at to reduce my average wait in line by
5 or 6 minutes
TIME
, even though I spend that much more time driving to and from the one I go to now .
When you want to better your score at golf , always remember the
Ben Hogan Golf Club
PERSON
name . They also discussed the urgent need to help
Africa
LOC
reduce vulnerability by building resilience to climate variability and developing the capacity to adapt to climate change . If that means speeding to reduce the speed differential among vehicles then so be it . Thank - you Do you own
a Signal Generator
ORG
? If it 's because it 's a " foreign " chip
ISO
ORG
standard , for example our local scanners should pick up a "
US
GPE
" one , I 'd think .
If you have n't gotten your copy of "
Glass Half Full
WORK_OF_ART
" you 'd better get to one of these clubs and pick one up before they 're all gone . So either the user must own all directories below the jail including the jail or others need read permissions to the same directories ?! Gently pick these off , or you can blow them off easily . When I was in
Germany
GPE
under President
Gerald Ford
PERSON
, I was registered as an informant of
CID
ORG
, and as I watched the
Soviet
NORP
Agents pick their targets among our Troops , trying to find men that were weak in character , so that they could control and influence them to do their dirty works , it became evident that they targeted mostly those that had
Drug
ORG
or Alcohol problems . Dipak
Patel
PERSON
wrote : Anyone own a
Focus
ORG
automatic ?
I guess you know you are in trouble when the trees pick up thier roots and dance !
BBC
ORG
values have been corrupted because licence fee payers must now own a
Microsoft
ORG
operating system to download
BBC
ORG
programming . I own a
Nissan
ORG
pickup with a
4
CARDINAL
cylinder engine .
The Path of Conquest
PERSON
quests in
Shadowmoon Valley
LOC
. To quench the all-round micro-psychic longings of the people , there must be the following : - Psycho-spiritual education .
He stood there and quivered for a
second
ORDINAL
or
two
CARDINAL
, trying to decide which one to chase . The mods I carried out are supposed to improve the noise floor of the
820S
LAW
but although sensitivity is very good and any
AGC
ORG
action quietens the noise considerably , I am still not entirely happy about the front end of the RX . They are united by friendship , and they meet with love , and they drink from the cup that quenches their thirst , and they go on with their thirst satisfied . There is no reason to mutilate them out of fear of the system , or from greed . Crest on a helmet , out of a ducal coronet a bear 's head muzzled .
They tell us so constantly , even as they mutilate them . wiretaps and raids seem like a more efficient way to nab dopers , at least at the protour level . -LRB- Easyjet here has
5kg
QUANTITY
-RRB- I do n't want to muddy the waters here , but I believe that if a non-immigrant alien is in possession of a valid hunting license or permit from
one
CARDINAL
of the states of
the United States
GPE
, then they are permitted to buy ammunition . They ca n't muzzle all of us . writes : Well , black really muddies the water because , as you pointed out , old puerh can be very black .
Two
CARDINAL
theories have clustered around it : -LRB- 1 -RRB- It is
anti-Mormon
NORP
propaganda to muddy the waters around the presidential campaign of
Mitt Romney
PERSON
, or -LRB- 2 -RRB- it is not about
Mormons
PERSON
at all , but an allegory about the
91101
ORG
terrorists . Police nabbed a suspect , and asked
Epstein
PRODUCT
to indentify the contents of the brieface . If you want to mutilate your body , go right ahead . The
California
GPE
woodpecker then challenged the
Hawaiian
NORP
woodpecker to peck a tree in
California
GPE
that was absolutely im-peckable -LRB- a term woodpeckers like to use
-RRB-
PERSON
. I 'm not even sure if he will want to perch anymore .
The aroma of
110
CARDINAL
-octane
Avgas
PERSON
permeates the air . I looked at the book
last weekend
DATE
- picked it up and paged through it - and was slightly revolted ... Meanwhile , back on the craft 's home world , scientists perch on the edge of their seats waiting to see what happens . The galah climbs down to the bottom of the cage and barks at them , and when they run up and bark back he tries to peck their noses through the wire . As you are well aware , and some members may not be aware that a lot of disease that your birds gets comes from the wild birds which perch on the aviary .
Now , nobody even peeps about this . In anger and frustration , the guy pricked the sardar with the needle and ran away.The I know a shock to think usenet is not the world wide web , but it is true , usenet predates the
WWW
ORG
and
html
PERSON
formated text . key also goes all the way through but does n't protrude as much because there is a small bump in the back for the tips.This The global financier
George Soros
PERSON
is putting money behind a similar idea , seeking to create a new
European Council on Foreign Relations
ORG
premised on the notion that
U.S.
GPE
foreign policy has left the world leaderless and in disarray .
It primes the sleep homeostat . Trouble has also been known to bite the thread spool pin on the machine just because it protrudes from the machine body . Scientists
first
ORDINAL
became interested in gas hydrate in
1982
DATE
, when it was discovered during a research leg of
the Deep Sea Drilling Project
ORG
,
one
CARDINAL
of
two
CARDINAL
U.S.-sponsored scientific drilling programs that predate
IODP
ORG
. I 'm a hemophiliac , and if you prick me , I 'll bleed all over the place. & quot ; Rather , it protrudes just a bit - not much , but just a little bit .
However , The
Byrds
ORG
predated I 'll Be Your Baby Tonight with The Girl With No Name which was released earlier in
1967
DATE
. Certainly ,
Michael
PERSON
had a big part in
Ralf
ORG
being able to extort a ridiculous amount of money for his services , but that 's just business . You 'd have to extort the money from the companies considered responsible . And these groups , in sort of google-like fashion , would extinguish themselves , since
FAQ
ORG
's tend to be reductive , and by searching the group you could find many prior answers and opinions to the same questions . We were going to feast for
the next week
DATE
!
It seems that our Attorney General of
Virginia
GPE
is trying to extort a large amount of cash from
Answer
LOC
in order to allow the
Pentagon
ORG
march to take place . Tyrants and wicked rulers have never been able to extinguish the kingdom of God . If it was money they wanted , they could have sold the photographs to any number of
American
NORP
or
European
NORP
tabloids for far more than what they tried to extort out of the
RF
ORG
. & quot ; See , I think there are
two
CARDINAL
ways in which people are controlled :
first
ORDINAL
of all , frighten people , and
secondly
ORDINAL
, demoralize them ... .
OTOH
PERSON
, there are few cars that would depreciate
less than $ 1000
MONEY
per annum and that 's if they do n't have any problems of their own needing repair .
I know alot of
Alfas
PERSON
depreciate like mad -LRB-
166
CARDINAL
! ! ! !
-RRB-
PERSON
and am not to keen to see a
1617k
DATE
investment dissappear to
5k
CARDINAL
in
2 years
DATE
. In outer space it will remain spherical , but in orbit it will gradually deform into an ellipsoid . It devalues the forum . Since the federal deprecation laws require
five years
DATE
to depreciate the cost of vehicles , most corporation keep their vehicles for
five years
DATE
or
300
CARDINAL
K WOF .
Bill O'Reilly 's
PERSON
success depends on a divided country and he 's going to do whatever it takes to keep it that way even if he demoralizes our troops in the process .
I do n't know how much the chip will devalue the piece . Further , even when we delimit the
Nigeria
GPE
space further , they would also emerge within
Yorubaland
GPE
, the politics of
Egba
ORG
versus Ijebu ,
Ibadan
GPE
versus Ogbomosho ,
Ibadan versus
PERSON
Ilorin
NORP
, and only God knows , how the
Ekiti
GPE
and the Oyo , would fair . It 's true the price of foreign goods in the
U.S.
GPE
will rise as the dollar depreciates , but the general price level in the
U.S.
GPE
is not as sensitive to the price of foreign goods as it is in most other countries . Laws that all but eviscerate
the Bill of Rights
LAW
will still be on the books . It is also used by many lawyers -LRB- several of the most famous are highly trained hypnotists
-RRB-
PERSON
, when they desire to entrench a point firmly in the minds of the jurors .
& quot ; Once I started to excavate ,
& quot
LOC
; says
Mazar , & quot
ORG
; it was as if I had written nothing . From time to time they 'd take fish they 'd caught onto the tees at the adjacent golf course to eviscerate them . what would be the point in that -LRB- at this point -RRB- It would not have changed anything , and possibly exasperated the circumstance . On the tombstone the gravediggers will engrave the words & quot ;
The Diplomatic Horizon & quot
ORG
; -LRB- for the
Palestinians
NORP
-RRB- andor & quot ;
Principles
GPE
for
the Final Status Agreement & quot
ORG
; andor
& quot
LOC
;
Framework Agreement for the Establishment of a Palestinian State
WORK_OF_ART
. & quot ; The theater of operations in
CotA
ORG
is so esoteric that people are n't going ot plop down $
50
MONEY
based on the subject matter .
If it 's the case that I live in some kind of moral or logical cesspit there 's nothing to force you to plumb my depths . Like I said before , if I wanted to plop down
millions
CARDINAL
on a house or condo , I could walk to work . I want to push out of my mind that
50 hour
TIME
comment and not expect anything like it , but it threatens to
hang aroung
PERSON
and plump my ego , and there is no room for an ego in those small cockpits . Then they plop the ankal boan on top , put it in a little ceramic crock , and
VIOLA
ORG
. But when it comes to how to plumb a system or what materials to use , there is nothing -- at least nothing specific to sanitaion .
I know right before it happens , before it comes out of my bagonia , and I go into the bathroom , and pull down my shorts and undies , and wipe up intimately with
two
CARDINAL
sections of
Charmin Ultra
PERSON
, and there is a faint film of less than a drop , and then I plop down on the toilet and shove in a
Playtex
GPE
deoderant superplus tampon that comes in the pink box , and that 's all she wrote . Unless you like to plaster your
SSN
ORG
and bank acct numbers all over usenet , identity theft should not be a problem . I think I 'll plump for the
first
ORDINAL
suggestion , as I 've just finished upgrading the ' new ' machine and I ca n't be bothered to get inside it again . I think that the Mallettecs do n't have a hose barb for static - if that 's true , you ca n't plumb a
TE
ORG
probe into it . We will continue to ride on
Saturday
DATE
mornings
TIME
and will post the ride information on
Thursday
DATE
.
The pope has to be
Jewish
NORP
because the false prophet will point the
Jews
NORP
to a
Gentile
PERSON
world leader . I am also going to assume you may want that as a navigation root and point you to a wiki page : https:weblion.psu.edutracweblionwikiMakeAsubfolderAnavigationRoot It 's against
Thai
NORP
law to post under an assumed name . Simply post your ads to r.c.s.m in the future , to prevent this from happening again . Supporters point to lawmakers who voted against expanded funding of embryonic stem cell research and lost
last year 's
DATE
elections as case studies for why the issue helps
Democrats
NORP
.
do not use your home or personal email address to post sensitive topics to this group . Could someone please point me to it if there was one ? How do I post a binary file ? Some markers point to the ouster of
Carson
PERSON
. They read Scripture as though it were poetry , and they learned from it accordingly .
To live in the human manner of progress , of abilities , of standards , of duties , you have so many areas wherein you can reach for ' Sainthood ' , and then one day We will meet
Face
PERSON
to face , and you will be accountable for everything you thought , you spoke and you said . When you reach your
50th
ORDINAL
or
100th
ORDINAL
show , need critique , or have a special interview that would be of special interest to your fellow podcasters , by all means , share . read them on
Yahoo
PERSON
yesterday
DATE
They were a quasi-compilation of a bunch of anecdotal reports .
Loco USA
PERSON
,
40 %
PERCENT
of high school graduates can not read and do arithmetic , teachers can deduct from taxes guns , but not books , and their main problem is not to be beaten , raped or drugged . The SAME THING would happen if you were suddenly to reach FULL GROWTH actually right now you are
only 85 %
PERCENT
full grown , and will stay that way the rest of your life .
Yes that 's a possibility , but you have to take the time to browse and read this website
first
ORDINAL
. He also said that the currently
500
CARDINAL
m - cubic - meter - a - day gas production in the country should reach
1,500 million
CARDINAL
m by
the end of
DATE
the Fourth Plan
FAC
. For this reason we have our students read books , hear guest speakers and view works of art that sometimes reflect values and perspectives different from those of
Northwestern College
ORG
. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength , another talent ... They drum their own beat -LRB- I think I mentioned this before
-RRB-
PERSON
.
Regardless , both are sexual predators who capitalize on adults who have suppressed their moral conscience like themselves . Not even
Steve Ballmer
PERSON
playing the ape on stage can drum up much enthusiasm anymore . and you 're replying to him , i wonder what that makes you Someone who can properly capitalize a sentence . She drummed into me that I should be anything but mediocre . Did you mean to capitalize
Wash
PERSON
? Yes , although
Shakespeare
PERSON
said '
Washes
PERSON
' .
We drum into every one 's head that goes thru the
CCW
ORG
class . "
Vietnam
GPE
is one of the fast - growing economies in
Asia
LOC
, and this deal would position
Cummins
PERSON
to capitalize on that growth , " said
Solso
NORP
. The
OAV
ORG
was marketed in such a way as to capitalize on viewer nostalgia ; in many ways , it was just a grown - up form of a show that men and women had watched as children . Bosch even sent
Carl Goerdler
PERSON
and others , traveling under the guise of company business to drum up allied assistance to assassinate
Hitler
PERSON
. I would n't advice using
Roundup
ORG
in a food garden or if you have a child whose condition may be sensitive to modern day chemicals , just plug away at the soil preparation and get that right from the start .
I need to map the distance - based acceleration that the function yields to values for controlling the motor speed so I can ramp up / down the motor speed based on the distance to be traveled . Your players plug in to the
uVme
ORG
global game network through your web site , and you 'll be offering player - to - player games with cash prizes . Using cotton - tipped probes , the doctors mapped out where on the patients ' chests they needed to press to recreate a sense of touch in various areas of the hand . I have tried different drivers and codecs etc , but since I plugged my headphone into the headphone jack the sound no longer works . To my understanding , each key must be unique and will lookup or map to a specific value .
It plugs into the
RV
GPE
wall socket and runs off the inverter OR off battery power when boondocking . For example - say I 'm trying to map out a flight - from
HonKong
GPE
to
Vancouver
GPE
- the line would show up as though I flew over
China
GPE
,
Europe
LOC
and
North America
LOC
. They mapped it out , got temporarily excited about the idea , and then let it sit on the shelf . If I plug a phone into the line , I can get a dial tone , but ca n't call anywhere . Good products sell well at high prices throughout the world . Most people accept this concept .
It would n't be bad if the price of goods in
China
GPE
could be equal to that of the countries in the
first
ORDINAL
world . If all the high - quality products did n't sell well at high prices in
China
GPE
and were sold cheaply everywhere , sellers would probably suffer great losses . People who do n't want to sell their good things at high price are fools . Who does n't want to save their own resources to buy good things at low prices ? Is it worth it to use low prices to dominate the market ? People used to do business by selling their surplus products , but what surplus products do we ourselves have ? Whether or not this main direction is right or wrong can not be explained . Our main direction is exchanging a large quantity of cheap products for a large amount of foreign currency . From an economic perspective , many foreigners are also making a lot of money from
Chinese
NORP
people . Whether it is a surplus or deficit is not something that ordinary people are clear about .
From the perspective of mutual exchange of needed products , there needs to be normal international trades after all . As a matter of fact , this boundary has already been crossed a long time go . Products that are in short supply in this country are exported in large quantity , and products this country has are still imported in large quantity . This has already gone against the principles of
Chinese
NORP
lifestyle .
The Tangshan Earthquake
EVENT
left behind over
4000
CARDINAL
orphans . In
the Wenchuan Earthquake
LOC
, the
first
ORDINAL
things to collapse in practically every town were the school buildings , while the government buildings next door were far sturdier . The bodies of the students killed in the earthquake came to rest in the school playgrounds , the unremitting wretched cries of many family members confirming the deceased or paying respects harrowing the hearts of the hearers . During the course of the relief effort , various media either consciously or unconsciously began ranking contributions to the relief effort . On one hand , this had the effect of earning community respect for some altruistic big players while carrying out their obligations to society , while on the other hand left others in very awkward territory , with on - the - spot grillings about community responsibility leading to some public figures lamenting that " charity must not become a burden " , and what sort of community culture does all this reflect ?
Whether or not there really are any warning signs for such a large quake , this " global dilemma " , only God knows . Public crises from floods , SARS , snowstorms to earthquakes at another level are testing the response and resilience of our societal mechanisms , which encompasses the ability to handle a crisis from top to bottom at a decision - making level and the ability to promptly and effectively deploy society resources , also taking in the initiative and teamwork skills of the community at large , from the lowest rung to the highest . With more and more people willing to try the linux system , these habits may enable you to get twice the result with
half
CARDINAL
the effort and find the fun in it . When you
first
ORDINAL
begin to use
Linux
PERSON
, you may feel unaccustomed to it . Many masters also share the same experience . They were once newbies after all . However , the Linux community is already doing an outstanding job in providing new users with relevant guides , manuals and basic technical documents , so that they can get started as soon as possible . When I
first
ORDINAL
got my hands on
Linux three years ago
DATE
, many people have helped me through forums , online chat and email . These " penguins " were really warm - hearted indeed .
For this , I feel much obliged to do something within my capacity for the community that have helped me selflessly and write something for friends who have just begun to use
Linux
GPE
. Here I 've compiled and translated
seven
CARDINAL
habits others told me when I was a beginner . I believe if you apply the
seven
CARDINAL
habits , you will feel it more secure and convenient and learn a lot of useful things when using
Linux
PERSON
. Ultimately you will find using
Linux
PERSON
is also as enjoyable . The fact that the
Olympic
EVENT
torch is able to arrive
China
GPE
safely , the significant role of the overseas
Chinese
NORP
is undeniable . There was a time when some people had always harbored a hostile mentality towards overseas
Chinese
NORP
. Even if they returned to serve the country and even if news articles called them " returnees , " what was actually in people 's mind were names like " sea turtles " or " sea weeds . " Anyway , none of the names treated those students who had returned or wanted to return with due respect . A friend of mine once made a call to ask about how things were going at the research institute where he ever worked .
The director immediately responded , " Do n't come back if you are doing well in
the United States
GPE
! " I reckon he was afraid he might lose his job to a returnee .
The Great Olympic Torch Relay
EVENT
has not only demonstrated the capabilities of overseas
Chinese
NORP
, but more importantly has showcased their patriotism as clear as the sun in the sky , which dwarfs those bad nationals who are unaccomplished , ill - intentioned or even corrupt and allows the
Chinese
NORP
government to see overseas
Chinese
NORP
in a better light . This will certainly be inspirational and helpful to the
Chinese
NORP
government , among other things , in its future policy - making concerning cadres , talents and returnees , as well as adjusting its rigid citizenship rules . They completely stopped doing chimney construction , and the next chimney projects that were taken were directly contracted out , while still publicly claiming that it was their own team , thus messing around for
a few more years
DATE
. Later on , chimney construction was completely dropped . And then , the company delved into the labor market and promoted project management with regard to construction . The project department was only in charge of using people , and they did n't keep loafers even for
a day
DATE
. Loafers were directly handed over to
the Labor Center
ORG
.
They gave
200 yuan
MONEY
a month for living expenses , which basically means they were laid off . Because the company has n't recruited young employees for
more than ten years
DATE
, most of these people were what was called " personnel in their
40s and 50s
DATE
" in society , a small handful of them were engineers and technicians , including some young university graduates . They should be reasonably considered unemployed people , but I do n't know if the government 's statistics of unemployed people include these people or not . Nowadays , all employees are completely replaced by contracted teams . Because there is no reference of the income of the previous construction workers , the migrant workers ' wages are constantly increasing . The profits brought to companies from decreasing labor costs are also decreasing due to the government 's measures for protecting migrant workers in
recent years
DATE
. Because migrant worker turnover is very fast and they frequently change companies or construction sites , they often work among several construction sites , which brings difficulties to company quality and safety management . This causes project quality to be unstable and increases potential safety hazards .
Marx
PERSON
affirmed
Feuerbach
PERSON
's materialism in the field of nature , but criticized his idealism in the field of social history .
Basically , facing the ugly reality of capitalism , he sank into idealism in terms of how to solve social problems , believing " universal love " was capable of treating social wounds . This is similar to the refrain , " if everyone gives a little love , the world will become a beautiful society , " sung in popular songs
today
DATE
. On the basis of his critique of
Feuerbach
ORG
,
Marx
PERSON
established the scientific socialism of historical materialism and found " the path of proletarian revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat " to transform capitalist society . But various representatives of the bourgeois humanitarian thought always wanted to replace revolution with humanitarianism and even distorted the core value of
Marxist
NORP
communism into humanitarianism .
Marx
PERSON
gave a merciless refutation of this . He said , if the humanitarianism of early capitalism still had somewhat progressive significance to feudalism , then after we have already blazed a path and found the approach of scientific socialism , to still preach the bourgeoisie 's humanitarianism would mean that he was either new to the revolution , or he was the fiercest enemy of the revolution . I am in
Taipei
GPE
, and other than donating a small amount of money to
Tzu Chi
PERSON
to support my fellow countrymen , I really could n't do a whole lot . I could only say : Go fellow countrymen in
Sichuan
GPE
!! Go
Chinese
NORP
people on both sides of the
Strait
LOC
!! Let me share something I 've learned with my friends and countrymen in the mainland , especially those in
Sichuan
GPE
.
Those who have survived the great earthquake that had resulted in enormous casualties , other than being careful with the deadly epidemic and viruses , most importantly , must pay attention to the survivors who are suffering depression triggered by the unbearable deaths of their family members and close friends near them , so as to prevent a wave of suicide . I 'm stressing once again , every effort must be made to cheer up and encourage the people who survived the disaster so as to prevent a wave of suicide . This is very terrible and should n't be taken lightly . Waves of suicide occurred after the great Hanshin earthquake in
Japan
GPE
or after the
9 / 21
DATE
earthquake in
Taiwan
GPE
. Especially with regard to =
Hanshin
PERSON
, many of the survivors committed suicide
one
CARDINAL
after another during
the period of six months to one year
DATE
after the earthquake . So in the case of the
9 / 21
DATE
earthquake back then ,
Tzu Chi
PERSON
, based on the experience from the
Hanshin
PERSON
earthquake disaster , laid special emphasis on encouraging the survivors in the disaster area of
Nantou
GPE
in
Taiwan
GPE
and let them cry out loud whenever they felt sad . By allowing them to pour out their excruciating sorrow over the dead , they tried to keep them from contemplating suicide . Actually , in
the years
DATE
since the reforms , out of the numerous party members and ordinary cadres who worked to combat previous disasters , the majority through selfless dedication and practical action demonstrated that they were worthy members of the working class vanguard ! Demonstrating that it was they who were the real nucleus , the backbone force and the hope of
the Chinese Communist Party
ORG
. Even those who went down the road of capitalist reform in the name of the party , they often ran the gauntlet of insults , sharing the " agony " of unemployment with countless other workers and the masses .
It 's difficult to imagine that without the vast majority of party members and ordinary cadres who shared the good and bad times with the people , shared their trials and tribulations , together bearing the weight of the "
three
CARDINAL
big mountains " brought about by the capitalist reforms , whether these disastrous reforms could have lasted all the way to the present ! That the leadership authority of the party and nation , stolen by the capitalist roaders , the capitalist reformers and the revisionist groups could last until
today
DATE
! The entire party , entire army , and the whole country , especially the people in the disaster zone have not yet fully lost confidence in
the Chinese Communist Party
ORG
, even fervently hoping the party can crack down on corruption , and reestablish its former glorious and correct greatness ! And therefore , the vast majority of party members and ordinary cadres who genuinely and sincerely care about the people in the disaster zone , will , just as in the past , support the rebuilding of the disaster area , even to the extent of sacrificing everything at the moment of truth , including their lives .
China
GPE
is probably approaching the turning point at which overall inflation starts to decline . The shortage of pork has always been one of the main reasons for the overall inflation to skyrocket . However , in
recent weeks
DATE
, domestic food prices have been stable or declining , relieving the public concern over shortage of supplies . For example , the
weekly
DATE
survey by
the Ministry of Commerce of China
ORG
shows that as of
February
DATE
, the wholesale price of fresh pork had been steadily rising to
nearly 23 yuan
MONEY
per kilogram -LRB- equivalent to
3.29 U.S. dollars
MONEY
-RRB-
PERSON
. Since then , the price has basically stabilized , falling back at
22.21 yuan
MONEY
last week
DATE
. Even if the prices of products like pork do not drop , the inflation rate may also decline .
Since
China
GPE
's CPI altogether broke through
5 %
PERCENT
in
July of last year
DATE
, the base of comparison for
last year 's
DATE
prices will be significantly raised , starting from
July this year
DATE
. If no accelerated increase in prices has occurred by that time , then as time goes on , the year - on - year increase rate of prices will decline . The soaring food prices have indeed caused a lot of burden on impoverished people , but so far the overall consumption expenditure in
China
GPE
does not seem to have been affected by inflation . In the wake of the earthquake in
Wenchuan
GPE
,
Sichuan
GPE
, companies have followed up the actual situation with substantial donations , while conducting rational integrated event marketing . Tencent has demonstrated =great strength in this event , as not only has the company donated RMB
10 million
CARDINAL
, but Tencent users have donated over
10 million
CARDINAL
in disaster - relief funds . In
the wee hours
TIME
of
May 13
DATE
,
Ma Huateng
PERSON
even personally supervised R & D of QQ prayer version that Tencent made for people in the disaster - hit areas . Well then , how did Tencent properly covered these incidents ?
First
ORDINAL
, Tencent integrated the willingness of consumers , which is the willingness of Tencent users to donate for disaster - hit areas , and launched donation platforms on
Tenpay
PRODUCT
, QQ prayer version and Tencent public charity website . It proves that
Tencent
ORG
's grasp of its users has been very accurate , Tencent 's wisdom !
The wisdom and social responsibility of users reflected the social responsibility of Tencent as a dot - com company . The amount for disaster relief donated by Tencent users has topped
10 million
CARDINAL
. Integrated marketing is about integrating the willingness of consumers , which Tencent did in a very quick and comprehensive way . In my opposition to despotism and pursuit of democracy , old
Donghai
GPE
has always been frank and integral . I am who I really am and stick to the path of kind - heartedness . I oppose what should be opposed and pursue what should be pursued .
Donghai
GPE
's heart , as upright as a heavenly guardian , will not be " touched " based on if the
CPC
ORG
will touch me - Of course , both the
CPC
ORG
and I will be lucky if the
CPC
ORG
does not touch me . As for why , I do n't know or care to ask .
A friend inside the system ever told me : I disagree with your political opinion , but we know you are different from some people , in that you are not for yourself , but rather genuinely for the good of the country -LRB- rough meaning
-RRB-
PERSON
. I 'm pretty moved and gratified over such words . It is commendable that such an understanding is from the camp I 'm opposed to . It is far more normal and honest than some " fellows " in the democracy and "
Confucian
NORP
" factions . Nonetheless , it is not that profound , because " for the good of the country " is just for my own good .
Ancient
ORG
scholars were for themselves , and
Confucianism
PERSON
is a learning for one 's own good . The work of developing inner morality and applying moral virtue to everything else must be furthered and completed by using various political , social , scientific practices . For
Chinese
NORP
Confucianists
NORP
, in the current historic stage , it 's the best practice of benevolent ruling to oppose privileges and pursue human rights and to oppose despotism and pursue democracy . Some have said that the idea of regarding
Google
ORG
as just a search engine company is well past its best buy date .
Google
ORG
's aim is to supplant individual PC's or company data centers and become a global computer . And becoming a global computer hinges on cloud computing , this " simple but powerful " concept .
Schmidt
PERSON
is not mincing matters , as a proponent of cloud computing , " Every investment that
Google
ORG
makes and all the work it does is all about cloud computing " .
Google
ORG
, this Internet giant with big dreams , also offers a lot of novel and exciting services . From browsing the planet from your living room with
Google Earth
ORG
to a new service developed by
Google
ORG
this March
DATE
-- Google Sky Map -LRB- Google Sky -RRB- , via Web page browsers , users can bring to reality their dreams of " walking in space " , observe remote galaxies , planetary motion , even watching the explosion of supernovae . Astronomy buffs are lining up for it . " In a sense , the world has
only five
CARDINAL
true computers . " These words from
Yahoo
PERSON
's Director of Research
Prabhakar Raghavan
PERSON
would surely leave many people dumbfounded . Recently I 've been preparing to change career course , leaving the stock market to grow in the real estate industry .
This in no way is because I see the stock market as empty and the real estate industry as promising , but because I think that at this moment in time ,
China
GPE
's real estate industry more than the stock market needs some creative financial tools to neutralize the huge risks that have accumulated over
the past few years
DATE
. What I had n't expected was that the vast majority of people after hearing about my decision first asked me : " When are house prices going to fall ? " They did n't want to hear my reasoning , instead expecting me to sum up predictions in real estate price trends in
one
CARDINAL
simple sentence . " Just like you predicted the stock market , how you often said ' No bull market with inflation ' , that kind of straightforwardness " . I understand these friends do n't really care about the intriguing framework and theory of the stock market , or the government 's complex regulations and policies . So I intend to
first
ORDINAL
answer their most pressing concern . In regard to
China
GPE
's domestic real estate prices , I sum it up in
one
CARDINAL
sentence : " When oil prices are deregulated , house prices will plummet . " In
the last three years
DATE
, I have always thought that only when the RMB gains value against a basket of currencies will house prices start to fall . Any policies apart from this only serve to allow the government to boost tax revenue , or allow the state - owned
Commercial Bank
ORG
to increase interest returns .
This early morning
TIME
the soccer match between the
Chinese
NORP
women 's team and the
Korean
NORP
team had indeed made me excited , I was surprised by the match 's brilliance , and I also gained a new understanding of the
Korean
NORP
team . They attacked swiftly and fearlessly and coordinated with tacit understanding , but looking back at the
Chinese
NORP
women 's soccer team , it was in an inferior position either in time - control or coordination . We lost this game with no complaints . But looking at the match between the
Chinese
NORP
men 's soccer team and the
Iranians
NORP
, that goal -- the insulting , provocative , and perverse goal -- made me question the quality of the
Iranian
NORP
team and even of the people in that country . The
Chinese
NORP
team showed their guts during this game ; they manifested the courage and fighting spirit of
Chinese
NORP
people . We did not shy away from the powerful
Iranian
NORP
team , but did our best ; it was n't until after an overtime and
two
CARDINAL
rounds of penalty kicks that we then regretfully lost the match . Let us remember the
Iranian
NORP
team , remember this
Iranian
NORP
player who scored this goal --
Borhani
PERSON
. The
IOC
ORG
warriors return to our motherland with hope . I believe there will eventually be
a day
DATE
when we will -- avenge
These without a doubt were extremely beneficial to a young - aged girl to the extent that marrying a foreigner became popular and fashionable . Latecomers outstripped their predecessors and most actually did n't think twice about it . When they met a tall - nosed and blue - eyed man , sparks would always be ignited within
the next three or five days
DATE
. What is pitiful about
Chinese
NORP
women is that they know the men of their own race too well . There is none of that beauty that comes from distance . So they give up what is near to seek what is far away . If you conscientiously study the emotional traits of
Chinese
NORP
and western men , you will find that
Chinese
NORP
men are the most worthy of marrying . The emotions of
Chinese
NORP
men lack a little romance , but instead are thick and solid . Their direction is specific and definite . They follow one of the world 's common truths that things will turn around when they become extreme .
Chinese
NORP
men truly understand the meaning of the
three
CARDINAL
words " I love you . " They not only imply a deep emotion of attachment but , even more , devotion and true love . It enters a realm that is deeper and broader than just man and woman . It is the crystallization of life after it has been melted down , concentrated into
three
CARDINAL
words . Thus of course , it is not like when foreigners know you for
three days
DATE
and then they lavish praise on you . Of course , foreigners also have deep feelings . But when it lacks that level , things seem to lack seriousness somewhat after all Following right after
the Thanksgiving Day
EVENT
, the
year - end shopping
DATE
season kicked off in the
US
GPE
. While various kinds of stores are crowded with people , the main shopping and auction websites have also ushered in a large number of visitors for online inquiries and shopping , with hit rates , traffic volume , and sales at these websites dramatically increased because of this .
EBay.com , the world 's largest online auction website , and its subsidiary price - comparison website
Shopping.com
ORG
said that this
Friday
DATE
-LRB-
November 24 of this year
DATE
-RRB-
PERSON
after
Thanksgiving
EVENT
, the hottest merchandise on its website was the commemorative big - eye plush doll
T.M.X. Elmo
PERSON
. EBay.com said that this past "
Black Friday
EVENT
" a total of
2,537
CARDINAL
big - eye plush
Elmo
ORG
dolls were auctioned at an average price of
around 70 US dollars
MONEY
at its website . The same toy is sold for
less than 40 US dollars
MONEY
at
Wal - Mart
ORG
, but it is seldom in stock . Yet at the shopping.com website , the highest price it was sold for was
150 US dollars
MONEY
. According to reports , in
recent days
DATE
the city of
Changsha
GPE
has used
24
CARDINAL
karat gold to re-case a
7.1
CARDINAL
m tall statue of
Mao Zedong
PERSON
and , to form a complete set , also has constructed a
four - thousand
CARDINAL
- square - meter
Gold Statue Square
FAC
to provide people a place to commemorate and relax . Upon hearing this I felt that if a regular statue is being provided for paying respects , then what positive effect does painting it again with a layer of gold have ? After the end of
the Cultural Revolution
EVENT
, the idolized position of
Mao
PERSON
underwent massive changes . Along with the taking down of
Mao
PERSON
's statues that filled the avenues in every region , or moving them to unnoticeable locations , old
Mao
PERSON
, the unassailable god , had become a mortal once again . But that is not to say that
Mao
PERSON
had stepped down from the altar .
The ubiquitous
Mao
PERSON
- related glitz and
graffiti
PERSON
have demonstrated this point . I believe that the vast majority of people of any era in history would identify with the misery that leader worship has caused for society and the common people . From ancient times , a unique characteristic of mankind has been idol - worship . But for the
Chinese
NORP
, following the birth of
Confucian
NORP
ethics , the object of worship has often not been those unfathomable spirits , but rather living and breathing mortals who have been deified . With the rapid economic development , the amount of electronic trash in our country will also increase rapidly at the
annual
DATE
rate of
5 - 10 %
PERCENT
, All this electronic waste , if not recycled and treated properly , will all become main pollutants of the future environment and will have enormous effects on the development of the economic society . At present , the recycling and treatment of electronic trash in our country are in a situation in which they are suffering from problems both at home and abroad . Not only a large amount of electronic trash is generated at home
each year
DATE
, an invasion of foreign electronic trash is also encountered . According to statistics , of the shocking amount of the world 's electronic trash ,
80 %
PERCENT
are shipped to
Asia
LOC
, and among them
90 %
PERCENT
are discarded in
China
GPE
.
Calculated this way , in
recent years
DATE
our country has to take in
more than 70 %
PERCENT
of the electronic trash in the whole world annually . Experts told the writer that most materials of electronic trash contain harmful substances such as lead , mercury , tin , cadmium , and others . If not properly treated , these substances will bring serious pollution to the environment . The disposal is in a state of supervision vacuum , and it really hurts to think that the large amount of electronic trash in our country is in a state of supervision vacuum . [] On
Monday
DATE
, government representatives of some
120
CARDINAL
countries will gather in the capital of
Kenya
GPE
to hold a
one - week
DATE
conference to discuss how to reduce the production of harmful waste , and to promote the recycling and reuse of waste . []
50 Million Tons
QUANTITY
of Electronic Trash Per Year Experts are especially concerned about toxic substances that people call " electronic waste . " [] In electronic products such as computers and cell phones , there are lead , cadmium , mercury , and other harmful substances . [] This kind of discarded electronic trash can reach
50 million tons
QUANTITY
per year , equivalent to
more than 5 %
PERCENT
of all urban trash . [] Experts say that most electronic trash are dumped into
African
NORP
countries and other developing countries .
[]
UN
ORG
Environment Program
spokesperson Nuttall
PERSON
said that a recent study shows that
tens of thousands
CARDINAL
of computers , as well as other equipment , have been shipped to developing countries . All of these were donated by people to the poor .
Last week
DATE
I called a friend who 's recently become a surgeon in
Beijing
GPE
, and heard something that I 'll say a bit about . Basically , most people 's idea of an operation is nothing but that you give the patient an anesthetic , ah , cut him open , take out the bad bits , sew him up , and it 's over . That 's when you meet obliging people . But there are some people in this world who are just not that obliging . My friend had the luck to meet some of these people . A
forty
CARDINAL
- something middle - aged man was going to have an operation . It was n't a minor operation ; it would need
at least two
CARDINAL
or three hours , and need a general anesthetic .
He was given the anesthetic , and , hey , he 's still wide awake , chatting with the doctor , on and on and on . What about ? Just those couple of last night 's
World Cup
EVENT
games were such and so forth . It happened that one of the doctors was a soccer fan , too , and the
two
CARDINAL
of them just began chatting on the operating table . But no one can stand you talking like this ! This thing takes
two or three hours
TIME
, and if I make a wrong cut with my knife here , are you going to be giving me an end - of - year bonus ? And the nurse is n't happy , either , -- not everyone is a sports fan -- and just by coincidence she has just had a fight with her other half last night because of the TV matter . The doctors and nurses knew the bottom of the story quite well , so they stopped right away after they saw her face .
China
GPE
's judiciary basically has complete initiative with regards to personnel appointments ,
If the judiciary proposes a candidate and
the National People 's Congress
ORG
and
the Party Committee
ORG
do n't see any problem , the candidate will inevitably be approved and appointed . It is an appropriately democratic process that also reflects the independence of the judiciary . Of course , democracy should be expanded further in the future . However , abroad , such as in the
US
GPE
, it is administrative bodies and parties that do the nominating . The judiciary has no nominating power at all . When
US
GPE
President
Bush
PERSON
proposed a candidate for
supreme court
ORG
judge , he
first
ORDINAL
nominated his own female secretary . With regards to finances , each year
China
GPE
's
National People 's Congress
ORG
can supplement the portion of funds that the judiciary is lacking . Overseas , such as in the
US
GPE
, this is n't possible at all . In any country , the judiciary ca n't print money . It is obliged to rely on a parliamentary resolution calling for the government to allocate funds .
These in fact are all balances in the democratic system . For any country that has the same finance system as that in
China
GPE
, it is just a bit more democratic in
China
GPE
.
Saddam
PERSON
's
last days
DATE
and what is said he was like
Bu Thari
PERSON
What we know about
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
in
recent years
DATE
is that he had changed a lot . He had
Islamic
NORP
tendecies and acts which many
Iraqis
NORP
mentioned , saying that
Saddam
PERSON
supported to a great extent the building of mosques centers for memorizing
Koran
PERSON
, and charities , and the dancer 's punishment was death . He had many works . But some explained his
Islamic
NORP
tendency by saying that he was currying favor with the
Sunnis
NORP
as if they were reading his mind . I have followed
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
, especially in
recent years
DATE
, and I noticed about him was that there was religion but there was injustice and coarseness .
And his punishment was unjust . I mean , for example , the dancer would be killed after
second
ORDINAL
offence . I did not expect anyone to kill the dancer unless good would come of it , but like the most idiots his aim was correct but the method was wrong . Another example - after his son
Udai
ORG
harmed the
Iraqi
NORP
people and attacked women and other matters ,
Saddam
PERSON
ordered him to be killed . And in fact he was fired on but survived miraculously , after being hit with several fatal shots some of which hit his spine . This is a sign that there was good in him otherwise he would not have ordered the killing of his son , his own child . But he was not a scholar nor feared in God . I myself heard from some people who were in
Iraq
GPE
about the things that
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
used to do , and could not be reasonably done by anyone other than a good
Moslem
NORP
To the extent that many said of his actions that they were only to gain favor amongst the
Sunnis
NORP
and the religious . But we judge by the appearances and his end was in line with the appearance . In his
last days
DATE
during the fall of
Baghdad
GPE
and his disappearance , an old woman or man said on TV on
al - Jazeera
ORG
channel that he was hiding in her house and had had his prayer mat with him and was always praying and reading the
Koran
WORK_OF_ART
.
Do we say no , this is hypocrisy ? Bear in mind that many have said that
Saddam
PERSON
prayed regularly especially after he was put in prison by the
Rafida
PERSON
and their masters . Some of those who said that he was always praying and reading the
Koran
WORK_OF_ART
are the
Christians
NORP
who visited him in his prison cell . Finally , during his hanging , the
Rafida
PERSON
tried to distract him and keep him from saying the
Creed
PRODUCT
before his death . They were trying everything they could but we say that God made him steadfast for the whole world to see that he died acknowledging God . The
Rafida
PERSON
were shouting provocative words such as
Muqtada
PERSON
and
al - Sadr
PERSON
so that he would lose control and curse them , then they would have killed him . So they could show the clip in which there is cursing and insults from
Saddam
PERSON
and cut the rest . However he remained steadfast in saying the creed and was killed whilst saying it . I believe that this could n't have happened without God making him steadfast otherwise God would not have made him steadfast in it . As
one
CARDINAL
of the sheikhs says , many people when they were supposed to say the creed and were being dictated the creed by those present would murmur " Did love see drunkards ? "
Other people say , I have not said it while I was alive and you want me to say it when I am dying ... the truth is what is apparent . But
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
was reasonable in that he repented and turned to his creator who receives the repentance from his slave . And he committed himself to the worship of God . And remained loyal to God . I ask God to have mercy on him and to forgive him and to give him an ample dwelling in his paradise and guide the rest of the
Ba'thists
NORP
. The success of
al - Jazeera
ORG
and the failure of
Hebrew
LANGUAGE
, the film
" The Death Squads
WORK_OF_ART
" for downloading . The Source of the Word . The
al - Jazeera
ORG
channel broadcasted the film
" The Death Squads
WORK_OF_ART
" with subtitles , as it was previously shown on the
British
NORP
Channel 4 . In this film the role of the
Shiites
NORP
in our beloved
Iraq
GPE
becomes clearer . The
Hebrew
LANGUAGE
channel , I meant the Al - Arabiya channel , did not dare , to broadcast this film or even mention it and the reasons are famously unknown ..
This is a unique precedent for
al - Jazeera
ORG
.. There are many questions , amongst them the timing of its being shown at this very time , following the conflict in interests between
the Sons of Monkeys and Pigs
ORG
and
the Sons of Temporary Marriages
ORG
... I leave you with the film which saddens the heart and makes it bleed .... the link to the film ..
http://z08.zupload.com/download.php?...filepath=48993 The Islam Diary
WORK_OF_ART
: A leader of the
Shiite
NORP
death squads in
Sadr City
GPE
, east of
Baghdad
GPE
, acknowledged that the
Mahdi Army militia
ORG
was involved in killing operations of
Arab Sunni
NORP
men after kidnapping them , despite their relatives having paid the blood money demanded by the hostage - takers in return for their being freed . Speaking at the same time about an
Iranian
NORP
role in the financing and support of the war of genocide against the
Sunnis
NORP
. " Fadil " , a commander in
the Mahdi Army
ORG
tells how he had followed
three
CARDINAL
Arab Sunni
NORP
men for a period of
some weeks
DATE
and detained them when they were crossing the
Karada
PERSON
bridge , after having informed an
Iraqi
NORP
army road block close to the area that he was pursuing " terrorists " , then attacked the car of the group in question . He also told
the British Guardian
ORG
that he took the
three
CARDINAL
men to
Sadr City
GPE
where his group had interrogated them then executed them , indicating that the members of
the Mahdi Army
ORG
usually demanded a ransom from the families of the hostages in return for freeing their relatives , and would liquidate them anyway after they receive the ransom . The newspaper quoted another commander in
the Mahdi Army
ORG
as saying ; " We have taken
10
CARDINAL
Sunnis
NORP
hostages , we will get a ransom for
five
CARDINAL
of them , then we will kill them all . In every major hostage - taking operation we get
50 thousand dollars
MONEY
, " and he considered it to be the best business a person could be running in
Baghdad
GPE
now ! The newspaper described " Fadil " as a valuable commander to this squad because he is a
Shiite
NORP
who grew up in the
Sunni
NORP
area south of
Baghdad
GPE
.
He speaks in the
Sunni
NORP
dialect and carries an identity card from the
Yusufiyah Sunni
NORP
village . He was quoted as saying : " I can enter the
Sunni
NORP
areas without anyone knowing that I am a
Shiite
NORP
. " It pointed out that
Fadil
GPE
and the likes are responsible for the
dozens
CARDINAL
of corpses which are being found daily in
Baghdad
GPE
. This means that the
Baghdad
GPE
security plan will not be successful unless the
Americans
NORP
control squads such as these to put breaks on the civil war . " Fadil " was quoted as saying that
the Mahdi Army
ORG
is resorting in its operations to reinforcements from
Iraqi
NORP
army units commanded by its members or sympathizers , and confirmed that all the police belong to the
Shiite
NORP
militia . He added that
the Mahdi Army
ORG
is receiving logistic and military support from
Iran
GPE
and that they are not encountering any problems in getting weapons through to
Sadr City
GPE
because they usually present a letter to each of the checkpoints they pass through . Son of the Interior " The
Al - Jazeera
ORG
channel is superior to the Al - Arabiya in many areas " " even though it has some bad faults " " ______________
al - Mu'tasim
PERSON
____________ "
Abu Bakr al - Razi
PERSON
I swear !!!!! You are like a
Zubairi
ORG
Chairman of
the Club
ORG
-LSB- QUOTE You are like a
Zubairi
GPE
-LSB- /quote -RSB- Source of the Word God bless you , my brother ,
Son
PERSON
of the Interior As for it being superior , it is superior to the
Hebrew
LANGUAGE
, I mean the 'Arabiya channel and there is no competition between them . It is the best one at conveying the incidents on the ground in
Iraq
GPE
, and has not covered many of the facts . As regards some of the faults they are many - especially its view of
Saudi Arabia
GPE
.. As we have said this is a unique precedent for it ...
The Glare Brother Source of the Word , a very good morning to you . This
Zionist
NORP
- American and
Safavid
NORP
evil triangle has nothing else to do but put an end to the
Sunnis
NORP
and the Book so that there is no one to resist them . But however much they try ,
Baghdad
GPE
will remain , by God 's decree , the capital of the
Islamic
NORP
caliphate . It will return , God permitting ! The victories of the
Mujahideen
PERSON
are obvious and
America
GPE
and its
Safavid
NORP
henchmen are no longer able to hide this fact . God be praised and blessed and we ask Him the Almighty on high to empower the
Mujahideen
PERSON
to be victorious and strong ; He has the power and ability to do so . Unique of His Kind My brother Source of the Word . The truth is that I saw the film and it was really terrifying to the extent that I thought I was watching a fictional film ... because I could not imagine the extent of the
Safavid
NORP
hatred and criminality . Despite what I had already imagined regarding their hatred and criminality nevertheless I did not imagine them reaching this level of hatred and criminality .
Al - Jazeera
ORG
deserves every appreciation for showing this film to the
Arab
NORP
viewer . But as for the Al - Arabiya channel , as long as
al - Rashed
NORP
is its director I wash my hands of it completely . Greetings .
Abu Juri
PERSON
Permit me to differ . The Al - Arabiya channel in a short time has pulled the rug out from under the lying
al - Jazeera
ORG
channel . If the
al - Jazeera
ORG
channel has , as you say , shown a tape about the
Shiites
NORP
then it , in contrast , has not presented more important tapes about the treacherous government of
Qatar
GPE
. The last of these tapes or news is
Peres
PERSON
' visit to
Doha
GPE
and the warm reception which he and his delegation enjoyed . There is no channel without faults .
But
Al - Arabiya
PERSON
is the best of them and it is more credible than
Al - Jazeera
ORG
whose
first
ORDINAL
aim , as we all know , is to attack
Saudi Arabia
GPE
and to interfere in our country 's affairs , even the private ones . I wish , even if it was only once , to watch one of those
al - Jazeera 's
ORG
programs in which there is a lot of shouting and fighting , talking about the Al - Udeid Base , or the
Israeli
NORP
trade office and what the
Israelis
NORP
are doing exactly . There are hidden matters in the state of
Qatar
GPE
and its government . But
Al - Jazeera
ORG
tries to cover up these failings by attacking other states and governments . Source of the Word Try again perhaps we can understand what you wrote ... Source of the Word By God 's will I have just understood it . Source of the Word May God grant you long life , my esteemed brother
Glare
PERSON
.
You are right in what you wrote . And victory is coming by God 's leave .
Salem
GPE
Neither
Al - Arabiya
PERSON
nor
Al - Jazeera
ORG
-- How I wish success to the
Al - Majd
ORG
channels , as they are truly the most pure and credible media channels on the face of the
Earth
LOC
. As for the rest of the channels they serve dubious agendas . If they hit the spot once they miss a
thousand
CARDINAL
times . Son of the
Interior
ORG
"!!" we have
al - Razi
PERSON
here ; who is his equal "!!" " A scholar and a genius , an inventor and discoverer "
"
Abu Bakr
PERSON
! You said nothing new " " _______________
Al - Mu'tasim
PERSON
_________ " the Source of the Word . May God grant you long life , my brother
Unique
PERSON
, welcome back ! The Al - Arabiya started as a rival to
Al - Jazeera
ORG
but it failed and the reason is famously unknown ... you find it in the word
Hebrew
LANGUAGE
And so the news started and the competition was won with make - up and women 's concerns . May you stay in good health .. The hot dialogue ... that went on between -LSB- -LSB- -LSB-
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
and
Rumsfeld -RSB- -RSB- -RSB-
PERSON
at the airport prison . Collaborator
Details of the minutes of the meeting between
Rumsfeld
PERSON
and
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
at
the Airport Prison
FAC
...
Washington
GPE
offers
Saddam
PERSON
a television appearance to stop the Resistance in return for his freedom .
Baghdad
GPE
- INA - from
Aras An Nasiri Minutes
ORG
of the dialogue between
Saddam
PERSON
and
Rumsfeld
PERSON
from trusted
American
NORP
sources . What follows is the text of
the minutes
TIME
At the start of the conversation President
Saddam
PERSON
appeared extremely calm . Perhaps he was surprised that his guest was
Rumsfeld
PERSON
, but he did not appear at all nervously tense .
Rumsfeld
PERSON
began the conversation by saying
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: I came to meet you to negotiate the situation in
Iraq
GPE
; we have made contact with some of your followers inside and outside
Iraq
GPE
, they have advised us to listen to you .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: So what do you want ? Your forces have occupied the territory of the proud
Iraq
GPE
, you have brought down the governing regime without a legal support ,
you have assaulted the sovereignty of an independent free sovereign country , you have committed crimes which history will record against you as evidence of your blood - stained civilization . So what do you want after all that ?
Rumsfeld
PERSON
-LRB- trying to suppress his anger
-RRB-
PERSON
: What 's past is past , I came especially to make you a clear and specific offer and I want to hear from you a clear and definite answer .
Saddam Hussein -LRB-
PERSON
mockingly
-RRB-
PERSON
: I thought you had come to apologize and restore power to the
Iraqis
NORP
.
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: We have nothing to apologize for , you constituted a danger to your neighbors and tried to acquire weapons of mass destruction and practiced dictatorship over your people and so it was only natural that we extended our hand to the people of
Iraq
GPE
to rid them of the perils which had confronted them for
more than three decades
DATE
.
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: I know that you are ignorant of history , and I know that your president is no less ignorant but it seems that you have continued to lie to the extent that you now believe yourselves . If " by our neighbors " you mean
the Zionist Entity
ORG
then we did indeed form a danger , we were preparing to liberate our ravished territory in
Palestine
GPE
. This is the wish of every
Arab
NORP
person and not just every
Iraqi
NORP
. For this is
Arab
NORP
land and its people are
Arab
NORP
, and the
Zionists
NORP
are the ones who occupied the land and came to us from all over the world with your help , yours , and that of the old imperial powers .
But if you meant
Kuwait
GPE
, I want to ask you . Did you withdraw from
Kuwait
GPE
or not ?
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: These are security issues . Besides , there are security agreements between us and
Kuwait
GPE
and the other
Gulf
LOC
states ... we came at their request to protect them from your threats .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: Is n't funny that the wolf is being entrusted with the sheep ? The people of
Kuwait
GPE
are an
Arab
NORP
people . And
Kuwait
GPE
is
Iraqi
NORP
territory , therefore I ask you to read history carefully , although I am certain that you wo n't comprehend it .
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: Stop from this drivel , I am offering you ...
Saddam Hussein -LRB-
PERSON
interrupting
-RRB-
PERSON
: Before you offer me your rotten goods , I ask you did you find weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq
GPE
or not ?
Rumsfeld
PERSON
-LRB- disconcerted
-RRB-
PERSON
: We have n't found them yet , but we will surely find them
one day
DATE
.
Do you deny that you had intentions to manufacture a nuclear bomb ?
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: We have had no weapons of mass destruction since
1991
DATE
, we were truthful when we spoke with the international inspection mission , we were truthful in our letters to
Kofi Annan
PERSON
, you knew these facts but you were looking for any pretext to occupy
Iraq
GPE
and topple its legitimate authority .
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: The
Iraqis
NORP
received us with overwhelming happiness and welcomed us , because of the practices of your bloody regime over the course of all those years in which you governed
Iraq
GPE
.
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: Please , Mr
Rumsfeld
PERSON
, enough lying . You are the ones who have opened the floodgates to cascades of blood on the soil of
Iraq
GPE
, you plotted against us and got some traitors to take over power over the land of the great
Iraq
GPE
.
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: Those you are calling traitors have been chosen by the
Iraqi
NORP
people as their leaders by democratic means and free elections , something that did not take place during your rule over the country .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: I found out that you had come with a troop of traitors led by
Talabani
PERSON
-LRB- laughs mockingly
-RRB-
PERSON
. Great
Iraq
GPE
is being ruled by
Talabani
PERSON
and
Jaafari
PERSON
. Is n't this ridiculous ? Then , which elections are you talking about ?
Is it permissible for what you call free elections to be held under your occupation of our country ? Mr
Rumsfeld
PERSON
, we have learned from history that the occupier will not bring except his assistants and lackeys , and you want , after all that , to convince me that the people of
Iraq
GPE
enjoy freedom and democracy ? You are truly delusional .
Rumsfeld
PERSON
-LRB- barely able to contain his anger
-RRB-
PERSON
: You are isolated and do not know the facts of what is happening on the outside . The
Iraqi
NORP
people have been liberated from your oppression , if they saw you or any of your men in the street they would kill you .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: I challenge you to announce your location in
Iraq
GPE
if you can . If the
Iraqi
NORP
resistance found out your whereabouts you would not be able to get out alive . I want to give a word of advice to your " dumb " president , you must pass it on to him , and it is that he should save what is left of his soldiers . Death surrounds them everywhere and history will not be merciful to him .
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: I came to talk with you about the terrorist operations which your men are instigating and carrying out . Your men have recently carried out an ignoble operation aimed at
the Abu Ghraib
FAC
prison where they injured and killed
more than fifty
CARDINAL
Americans
NORP
and also killed a number of prisoners imprisoned under various charges . Your men are employing terrorists from all parts of the world and they are threatening the democratic process in
Iraq
GPE
.
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: What is it you want exactly ?
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: I am making you one offer , that you are released and choose for yourself a place of exile in any country you wish on the condition that you appear on television to announce your condemnation of the terrorism and to ask your men to stop these practices .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: Have you obtained the consent of your president to this offer ?
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: Yes , this offer was agreed to at a session in which the President , his deputy , the Secretary of
State
ORG
and the head of the
CIA
ORG
took part and I was commissioned to inform you of this offer .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: It is a very low price .
Rumsfeld
PERSON
-LRB- excited
-RRB-
PERSON
: We are prepared to include elements close to you in power .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: And what else ?
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: We will offer you considerable financial assistance and will look after your and your family 's security in the country you choose .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: Do you want to hear my conditions ?
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: Yes , that would be nice .
Saddam Hussein -LRB-
PERSON
in language beaming with pride and arrogance -RRB- I want you
first
ORDINAL
of all .. to set me a timetable for the withdrawal from
Iraq
GPE
that your government will commit itself to it in front of the world , and for you to begin the withdrawal operation immediately . I ask ,
secondly
ORDINAL
, .. for the immediate release of all the
Iraqi
NORP
and
Arab
NORP
detainees in the prisons you have set up or in those where you have shackled the freedom of
tens of thousands
CARDINAL
of honorable
Iraqis
NORP
.
Thirdly
ORDINAL
, I ask you .. for the undertaking that full compensation will be offered for the material losses which the
Iraqi
NORP
people have suffered through your aggression on our country since
the Mother of All Battles
ORG
in
1991
DATE
until
this present day
DATE
. I will accept the assistance of an international and
Arab
NORP
committee in estimating these losses .
Fourthly
ORDINAL
, I ask that you produce the money which your men looted from the treasuries of
Iraq
GPE
and its oil especially this criminal
Bremmer
PERSON
and his henchmen from the traitors and renegades . And , fifthly , I ask for .. the return of the antiquities which you have stolen and handed over to the antiquities mafia , for these are priceless treasures because they bear the history of
Iraq
GPE
and its civilization . Your country is no older than
a few hundred years
DATE
.
True , you do not have neither a civilization nor history , but all that can not excuse your thefts and your hatred of
Iraq
GPE
's civilization and
Iraq
GPE
's riches .
Sixthly
ORDINAL
, I ask that you hand me the weapons of mass destruction if you have found them , bring back to life all the martyrs you have killed , and return the integrity of the glorious
Iraqi
NORP
women which you have robbed .
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: Is this some kind of joke ?
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: No , this is just the bitter truth , which you know very well . Mr
Rumsfeld
PERSON
, you have committed the greatest crime in history against a peaceful
Arab
NORP
state .. we met each other in
the eighties
DATE
. Do you remember your offers ?
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: Let us forget the past , we are in the process of re-evaluating our position on you and on the many forces which displayed hostility to us in the past . We have decided to hold a dialogue with the moderate
Islamists
NORP
. We have no objection to their arrival in power via the ballot box . But more importantly , we have decided to open channels of dialogue with " terrorist " organizations such as
Hamas
ORG
and
Jihad
ORG
and
Hezbollah
ORG
who are loyal to
Iran
GPE
, and other fundamentalist organizations in the whole world .
And we even have a project to get in touch with the
Taliban
ORG
movement in
Afghanistan
GPE
to discuss its participation in power in return for disarming .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: Then you have begun to re-think your mistaken methodology .
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: It is a natural development of things , we are trying to spread democracy to all countries and all autocratic movements .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: You would be successful if you would tell the truth . I know the reality of your goals . If you were really sincere you would begin straightaway , you and your allies , to withdraw from
Iraq
GPE
, and you also have to back down from your position of supporting
Israel
GPE
. I know that your president is stubborn and obstinate and not sincere .
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: He is a democratically elected president and not a bloodthirsty ruler like you .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: Terrorism is your trade and deceit your method .
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: This proposal is an historic chance for you .
We will release you and will consult with you in everything concerning governance issues in
Iraq
GPE
. If you reject this offer then the opportunity will not be repeated .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: I am not looking for opportunities , I am not looking for a way to save my neck from the gallows which you have set up for the whole of
Iraq
GPE
. If I wanted that I would have accepted the
Russian
NORP
offer and saved my
two
CARDINAL
sons and my grandson from martyrdom . I do not know what the fate of my family and my daughters and grandchildren is , but be sure that I am concerned for every
Iraqi
NORP
citizen and the future of the Great Iraq more than I am concerned with myself and my family . You have previously made me an offered before this through your men that I say the weapons of mass destruction were smuggled to
Syria
GPE
, and you said that the price was my release . I refused and I repeat the refusal once again .
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: I do not want a refusal from you , I want you to think about it . We are currently re-evaluating our positions , we want to stop the bloodshed on both sides and so our offer is made from the point of strength and not from the point of weakness .
We asked
Jalal Talabani
PERSON
to make a statement in which he denies any intention to execute you as a sign of good will from us . We are ready to review our position completely on the entire political process in
Iraq
GPE
and we will hold a dialogue with you and with your men on this matter .
Saddam Hussain
PERSON
: Are you ready to withdraw or not ?
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: We could discuss re-deployment , our forces have prepared bases for long - term stay . We could withdraw from the streets and the towns but we will stay in the bases for a some time .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: Then you want a new lackey to be added to this queue of lackeys . No Mr.
Rumsfeld
PERSON
.. do n't forget that you are speaking with
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
, the president of the state of
Iraq
GPE
.
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: But you have lost power .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: I have only honor left and honor can not be sold or bought .
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: But life has a value that is priceless .
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: There is no value to a life without honor , and you robbed
Iraq
GPE
of its honor when you desecrated its land . We will get our honor back whether
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
survives or becomes a martyr .
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: Your followers with whom we entered into a dialogue have told us that the decisions will be yours ,
first
ORDINAL
and last . Were they expecting your reaction ?
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: For sure , they know that
Saddam Hussain
PERSON
can not back down at the expense of his nation and its honor .
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: History will hold you responsible for the blood which is being spilled in
Iraq
GPE
.
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: On the contrary , history will judge you because of your crimes .. I warned you in advance when I said to you that you will commit suicide on the walls of
Baghdad
GPE
, and here you are paying the price . I ask you to go to
London
GPE
and read the records of
the British Foreign Office
ORG
to find out some of the characteristics of the struggle of the
Iraqi
NORP
people against your
British
NORP
friends whose mistakes you are repeating and making them participate with you . The
Iraqi
NORP
people are an obstinate people and do not fear death ... the Resistance is stronger than you imagine and therefore I predict there 'll be more .
End of the text of the meeting
minutes
TIME
... the source
May
DATE
your steps in doing good be like someone walking on sand ... he makes no sound but his tracks are obvious .
MOTAAWEN@HOTMAIL.COM
PERSON
Over the sun http://alsaha.fares.net/sahat?128@96.GdrOcqF3AIR.21@.3ba9a044 Details of the minutes of the meeting between
Rumsfeld
PERSON
and
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
at
the Airport Prison
FAC
. The Amateur
Rumsfeld
PERSON
: We have nothing to apologize for . You were a danger to your neighbors and tried to acquire weapons of mass destruction . And you practiced dictatorship over your people .
and so it was natural that we extended our hand to the people of
Iraq
GPE
to rid them of the perils which had confronted them for
more than three decades
DATE
. And did
Rumsfeld
PERSON
free
Iraq
GPE
from dangers ? He is really delusional ... I have reservations about what appeared in these minutes ... because I think it unlikely that what happened at that meeting would leak out this easily ... And I do not believe that
Rumsfeld
PERSON
would meet
Saddam
PERSON
unless
Saddam
PERSON
himself made signs ... the important thing is that the expression quoted above tells of a reality that can not be but accepted ... May God the Great forgive me . Collaborator My brother , Over the
Sun
ORG
. I apologize for repeating the article , and thank you for participating . May your steps in doing good be like someone walking on sand ... he makes no sound but his tracks are obvious .
MOTAAWEN@HOTMAIL.COM
PERSON
Cooperator My brother
Amateur
PERSON
Thank you for participating . May your steps in doing good be like someone walking on sand ... he makes no sound but his tracks are obvious .
MOTAAWEN@HOTMAIL.COM Qais the Son
PERSON
of His Father The Martyr of the Nation , God is his protector and we do not recommend anyone above God , ascended up the gallows walking straight , not with a bowed head , and he was treated to what -LRB- -LRB- the lackeys
-RRB- -RRB-
PERSON
witnessed . He disdained death and was not bothered by it , challenging the provocations of the imperialist donkeys with full self - control , repeating the words " There is no God but God and
Mohammed
PERSON
is the messenger of God . " After the sentence was carried out and his body was dangling in the air , his shoes were above the heads of the scum , the imperialist donkeys , those on whose backs the people of the cross are riding and who share the trenches with them to carry out the most despicable , vile and contemptible crime the
Islamic
NORP
world has know in our current age . .
-LRB- -RRB- Exalted in life and in death **** verily , you are
one
CARDINAL
of the miracles As if the people around you when they rose up **** delegations at your call in
the days
DATE
of prayer . As if you are standing amongst them addressing - **** and all of them are standing to pray You extended your hands towards them in welcome **** just as you extended them towards them with gifts . When the bowels of the
Earth
LOC
became too tight to - **** confine your exaltedness after
Death They
ORG
made the air your tomb and they exchanged - **** for the shrouds the gown of the sandy winds For Your Greatness in our souls grows and is tended - **** by guards and trustworthy confidents May the
Compassionate
ORG
rain his blessings on you - ***** with mercies passing to and fro The Emirati
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
: I have nothing left but honor and honor can not be bought and sold .
The Collaborator My brother
Qais
PERSON
, the Son of his Father , I thank you for your post and the addition , may God take care of you . May your steps in doing good be like someone walking on sand ... he makes no sound but his tracks are obvious .
MOTAAWEN@HOTMAIL.COM
PERSON
I just got back from the gym . oh good . uh-huh . How 's it going ? oh pretty well .
It was really crowded
today
DATE
. yeah . I kind of assumed everyone would be at the shore . uh-huh . I was wrong . Well it 's the middle of the week or whatever so . But it 's
the fourth of July
DATE
. %mm . So .
yeah . People have to work
tomorrow
DATE
. Do you have to work
tomorrow
DATE
? yeah . Did you have off
yesterday
DATE
? Yes . oh that 's good . And I was paid too . oh . Is it paid
today
DATE
?
No . oh . But %uh yeah , so the gym 's going well . oh . But I still need to go more often . Well how often are you going ? Only four days a week . .
yeah . Got to get that
up to five
CARDINAL
. %mm . But , I do n't really like going with
Anne Marie
PERSON
because she does n't like to stay very long . Why ? I do n't know . She kind of , well unfortunately for some reason she 's not like into cardio vascular . So when I 'm still riding the bike she 's completely finished her weight lifting routine . mhm .
And like I have n't even started mine . mhm . You know and I kind of hinted to her that really the only way to lose weight is cardio vascular . mhm . It 's true . And that lifting the weights wo n't lose weight . %mm %mm . You wo n't lose it , you know , but No I mean you might lose some but that 's only when yo- . For a woman who is lifting not that much I do n't think yeah . You would . I mean yeah
I mean the only thing is %um just getting your heart rate up for extended periods of time . yeah , So I do n't know maybe she 'll catch on soon . You do burn a lot of calories
an hour
TIME
though , lifting weights . uh-huh . But %uh yeah I mean I do n't think you 're going to lose that much . and also lifting weights at
Bally
ORG
's means you 're standing on line for as much time as you 're actually lifting .
Really . yeah . That 's too bad . yeah . So is it really overcrowded ? Well , I mean obviously since I work I ca n't get there until
about six o'clock
TIME
at night which is when everyone else gets there . mhm . mhm . But I 'm sure for people who go in the daytime it 's probably dead . yeah . You know and %um , like when I go
Saturday
DATE
and
Sunday
DATE
mornings
TIME
it 's totally dead .
mhm . So But you know the weeknights is pretty crazy . yeah . yeah I found a gym
yesterday
DATE
here that 's
only eight pounds
TIME
a month which is like
twelve dollars
MONEY
,
twelve
CARDINAL
fifty
CARDINAL
oh yeah . Wow . yeah . It 's at the hospital nearby .
Well that 's a deal . yeah . yeah . So uh-huh . I think %um
tonight
TIME
Charlie
PERSON
and I are going to go over and join up . Even
Charlie
PERSON
's going to join ? No , but it has to be debited from a bank account so it 's got to be debited from his . yeah . In your letter you said that he eats constantly . oh my god .
Really ?
Alice
PERSON
, I 've never seen anybody eat as much as he does and he 's so skinny . mhm . I mean the amount of cereal he eats like between meals and after meals yeah . and we go through a box of cereal
every two days
DATE
. Really ? yeah . Wow .
He eats at least like
four
CARDINAL
of cereal a day like in addition to like meals . uh-huh And when he goes to work he brings
four
CARDINAL
sandwiches with him , uh-huh . a bag of potato chips uh-huh . %um you know and then little sweetie things chocolates and **cakies** and stuff like that . uh-huh And then you know before he leaves every morning he has like
two
CARDINAL
fried eggs mhm on toast with cheese %um vegetarian sausages %um and like fruit and oh my god it 's just crazy . mhm . It 's crazy how much he eats . He was probably starving when he was here . yeah .
I think what we got to do is just when he comes just have lots of cereal . He likes
Cocoa Pops
ORG
. oh boy . Wow . That 's pretty crazy . yeah . It 's all about being a blue collar man . I guess so . They 're the ones who can eat all day . Really ?
Well I mean he does work his ass off so yeah . But %uh 291.01_291.28_B: %hm . %hm . So , I assume it 's hard for you not to eat as much as he does . No . I learned quick fast in a hurry because I 've gained so much weight . oh really ? yeah .
Actually in
the first week
DATE
I was here -- mhm . -- I gained a lot so . Well it 's hard to you know not eat when somebody else is eating . Well I 'm figuring it out fast because -- okay -- with not working out and all yeah . it 's pretty miserable my crunch tape . %mm . So I called this woman
today
DATE
and %um , she 's a dressmaker and we 're going to go see her next Thursday and talk about her making my wedding dress . Slate green .
yeah . %uh . See , that way I can have exactly what I want . Exactly . And it 's only going to be
about two hundred and fifty pounds
CARDINAL
which is
about three hundred and fifty dollars
CARDINAL
. uh-huh . So it 's pretty good I mean comparatively . yeah . And it 'll be exactly what I want and it 'll look good on me , you know like fit me , Sure . which is necessary at the moment because I 'm plump
so . mhm . Now , daddy got %um the invitations together for you
today
DATE
. uh-huh . And in it I put , %um paint samples from
Sherwin Williams
PERSON
uh-huh . of all the different like shades of what color I thought you might be thinking of for the bride 's maids . uh-huh . oh I already told them all black but dad does n't want black he said . Mom and dad wo n't have black . They do n't want black ?
They 're really opposed to it . Did you call
Sharon
PERSON
and tell her that ? No . Could you do that ? okay . Could you call
Kate
PERSON
and tell her that ? yeah . Just say you know my parents are really opposed to black . yeah . They wo n't buy me a black dress .
They wo n't ? Here wait . Let me look for my phonebook . No . Never mind . I can just open the thing here . Now wait . What , god we got so much furniture in this tiny apartment . It 's crazy .
There 's drawers everywhere , to figure out where everything is . okay . Let me give you
Kate
PERSON
's phone number . You can just leave a message . okay . okay .
two
CARDINAL
one ,
two
CARDINAL
one two
CARDINAL
uh-huh .
two
CARDINAL
two
CARDINAL
six
CARDINAL
uh-huh . O
one two five
CARDINAL
. okay . okay . I 'll do that .
But %uh , yeah , apparently like at
Lisa Manachi 's
PERSON
wedding like the whole night people were talking about how bad the black dresses were . Really ? Like everyone at mom and dad 's table . yeah . Who was at mom and dad 's table ?
Weirdo
PERSON
just all of
Lorraine
PERSON
's friends . mhm . Who you know of course most of them mom and dad had at least met once before . mhm .
But %uh yeah , and
Adele
PERSON
still talks about the black dress . What ? How hideous they were .
Adele
PERSON
was n't at
Lisa Manachi 's
PERSON
.
Adele
PERSON
went to the mass wedding . She did ? uh-huh . oh .
And she wanted me to take her and I refused to go and she got mad . Really ? Well I said I would not feel comfortable going . I was not invited . mhm . You know and mom and dad were like well you know a wedding that 's a mass is open to everyone . I was like well that 's fine but I would not feel comfortable going . mhm .
I think that would be obnoxious and I think they would then feel guilty for not inviting me . Right . To -- -- you know the other thing , the reception . I just would n't go . %mm . So they had to take it down and drive her home . %mm . So they 're always kind of pissy at me . %mm . That 's okay .
yeah . yeah . I mean I 've been thinking about it and the black 's not going to be so hot you know but mhm . yeah . Apparently they were also carrying lillies which is kind of goofy . yeah .
Well I guess she did that because someone suggested that to her because you know the lillies the symbol of the virgin
Mary
PERSON
. mhm . White lillies ? White lillies and black dresses . %mm , my goodness . That 's funny . yeah . yeah .
Adele
PERSON
was carrying on that she thought she was at a funeral and she had to keep reminding herself .
%mm . So now you think my wedding 's going to be pretty tasteful right ? But oh yeah . Now what about the matchbooks ? Well I 'll work on it . I still think about the matchbooks . yeah . I 'll tell dad that you still think about the I have n't forgotten those
and they 'll still be enough time when I come home for me to order those . yeah . I 'll have remind him of that little -- -- item . yeah . %huh how fun- . You know I was talking to my friend Heather from
Wisconsin
GPE
the other day -- -- and she 's telling me about you know her sister 's wedding . And at her sister 's wedding %uh , they provided champagne and beer . But if you wanted any other kind of drink you had to pay for it . mhm .
yeah . that 's actually kind of common but -- oh it is . it 's pretty de classe . Well I kind of thou- , I mean of course I did n't say anything to her . yeah . You know I said as far as I knew we were n't charging people . yeah . Now But %uh ,
yeah Dad and I went to buy the wine
the other day
DATE
. And there were having a sale on the wine dad wanted . Are you talking to me ? Of course I 'm talking to you . I can hardly hear you . oh . I thought you were talking to somebody else and like put the phone down or something . I 'm talking to you . oh .
yeah . No dad told me that . oh he did tell you . It 's all
Chilean
LOC
. yeah . yeah .
Walnut Crest
GPE
or
Walnut Creek
GPE
or -- %mm . -- something like that . I do n't know . %mm . There 's a pretty good sale . %mm . So now we have to keep our eyes open for a champagne sale .
An- , do you know if
Jack
PERSON
called
Spencer
PERSON
yet ? I told him
this morning
TIME
to do it
this week
DATE
. uh-huh . And he just keeps forgetting . yeah . But o- How 's he doing ? Much better . yeah ?
yeah . he 's often chipper . He went for a walk
this morning
TIME
at
five seventeen
CARDINAL
. Pe- oh my god . Is that because he 's not sleeping and Well because he could n't breathe because all the cats were in the bedroom . oh . So I think it 's time to give all the cats a bath . %mm .
yeah and the- , you should do that . I know . It 's a
two
CARDINAL
person job though . I 'll have to get somebody to help me . %mm . yeah . %hm . %um , how are you guys ?
How is
Chris
PERSON
and how are you ? Well pretty well .
Chris
PERSON
is not here at the moment . She 's been away with her class oh . up around
Blandenburg
GPE
for
about two weeks
DATE
on a , what they call Feldmessen . Feldmessen is , %um , surveying . %hm . %uh , so she 's been away for
two weeks
DATE
. She 's coming back
tonight
TIME
. ha .
So we 're looking forward to that . oh , I 'm sorry we 're going to miss her . yeah , oh gosh . I bet you 're getting lonely . yeah , well .
Claudia
GPE
's been here and we 've been doing okay . %mm . And I 'm actually waiting for
Claudia
GPE
to show up because we were supposed to go into town and meet some people in town . I 've got a student here who 's checking out rooms and stuff .
%mm . She 's coming in the fall , but she was in a place called
Taiwa
GPE
. You know
Tufts
ORG
yeah . sent her to
Taiwa
GPE
I had friends there . She did a course in
Taiwa
GPE
and then she came over here , and %um , checked out a room here . And so it 's and the end semester is still going . Of course it ends on
the twenty second of July
DATE
. mhm .
So , %uh oh , yeah . things are busy . yeah , gosh . yeah . You still got
another month
DATE
. And then , are you coming over to the States at all this summer ? No . No . No , no . %uh Not even
Chris
PERSON
?
No , no , no . %uh Not enough relatives left here anymore ? Well the relative scene is kind of sad . You know everybody 's kind of passed away , almost . yeah , I remember when I talked to you in the fall yeah . yeah . that %uh It 's just about oh did your sister die ? My sister passed away , yeah .
I do n't know if you spoke to me before that or when it was that was happening . Or I guess not When was it ? It may have been right after . Well My father died right after we talked . oh god . yeah . yeah , we 're getting old .
No , it 's , I do n't know what it is . It 's just , %uh , people get sick , and they get sick pretty young , and , yeah . And you know my sister was n't that old and she just had bad luck I guess is all you can say . yeah . I 'm going to put you on after
fifteen minutes
TIME
.
I 've got to And there was n't anything anybody could do . So . And then an aunt of
Chris
PERSON
's
Aunt Mamie
PERSON
up in
Maine
GPE
passed away . that had n't happ- , had that happened already ? No No that had not happened , no . She passed away in
about March
DATE
or yeah , I think that there was some concern about her when I talked to you in
September
DATE
or
October
DATE
.
. yeah . No , she was not doing well . She had a brain tumor . And then they operated on and things were n't going well , and . I actually got to see her I guess a day before she died . oh . I mean she did n't know that I was there .
if that was you , yeah . yeah , she was just not in So it was a blessing , I guess . But , %um . Anyway , weird stuff . yeah . yeah . And how about you ? Because , I r- oh I 'm han-
how are your eyes ? yeah . Well , I do n't know . I have to go
next week
DATE
you know to see again . I , %um , not exactly convinced that . It 's okay . You know , I 'm not sure . %hm . %uh , it 's been pretty good . It was
about eighty percent
PERCENT
for a while . And then %um , I 'm not exactly sure what it is now .
But I 'll know in
a couple of days
DATE
. So are you having blurred vision ? Or oh yeah , yeah . Sure . The right eye is %uh , not so great . %hm . %um , and it got back to
about eighty percent
PERCENT
. You know it was a detached retina . Right .
And then they operated on it once , and they operated on it twice . And , then things seemed to be doing pretty well , and at the moment I 'm %um , not quite so sure . %hm . So , who knows . %um . %hm . But you know it 'll never be more than about seventy or
eighty percent
PERCENT
. Which is fine .
Eighty percent
PERCENT
is fantastic . Right .
Right . %um So we 'll just see . You know %hm . we 'll see what happens . Frustrating . %uh , yeah . Annoying . And that thing that came up recently , , you know I had , oh , a kind of a knee problem
a couple of years ago
DATE
. And my right knee , and now it 's my left knee .
you know , it 's just a pain in the ass . And yeah . %um , I went to the doctor and they do a Punktion . Ich weiss nicht wer . Anyway they take , %uh fluid out of it . uh-huh . And if it gets irritated take some pills and stuff . And , it 's just a pain in the ass . So it 's just , l- . is that like water on the knee ? Is that what that is ?
%um , well that 's what happens . It develops because of irritation , because of a %um , inflammation . %hm . Is that from the running ? And how the inflammation d- yeah , maybe . I mean they do n't know . mhm . They do n't
It just came overnight practically . Wow . %um , and %uh , we 'd been up in
Berlin
GPE
and we had a big trip up there and did a lot of walking , a lot of fast walking and stuff . But you know , I mean that mhm . should n't be a big deal . %um Was this last crop of **Tuftees** good ? So . Was your last crop of students from
Tufts
ORG
good ? How 's that ? yeah
well they 're still here . Right , but they 're winding down , so you know them really well by this point . They 're winding down . yeah , they 're very good . they learned a lot of
German
NORP
. They learned an amazing amount of
German
NORP
. Before I forget , I saw
George Silinas
PERSON
a couple of days ago
DATE
.
oh . How 's he doing ? And he 's had Well he 's working for an
American
NORP
firm over here , and he 's doing very very well . %um , and his wife just had their
fourth
ORDINAL
child . Wow . A little boy .
Benjamin
PERSON
. yeah . Wow . %um , about , %uh ,
two weeks ago
DATE
maybe .
%huh . Tops . And I got a card from , you remember
Amy Gleason
PERSON
? yeah . yeah . Well she just had a baby a couple of heard that . Well this is number
two
CARDINAL
. okay .
I just got a card from
Ron
PERSON
and
Doris
PERSON
, oh . and they see
Amy Gleason
PERSON
on occasion . And so I think they told me that . yeah . Have you heard from
Ron
PERSON
and
Doris
PERSON
? Not in a while , no . They are now living in
Rhode Island
GPE
. You probably knew that . Well . yeah .
And she 's teaching at U R I . yeah . And it was a very nice letter , because it sounded like she went through very similar things that I did . You know , I went from
Chicago
GPE
to
U C S G
ORG
to here . Right . And it 's just such an intellectual letdown . Right . And she went from
Penn
PERSON
, %um To Columbia . to
Columbia
ORG
to U R I . Well
Columbia
ORG
's okay . yeah .
And she said the students are just , you know , they do n't care , and they 're not very good , and all of a sudden she 's getting conference papers rejected and she thinks it 's the affiliation . yeah . Because she does n't think the quality of her work has changed . Now I have n't submitted a conference paper with the
Missouri
GPE
%um , you know , affiliation yet . Because the last one I submitted , %um , was in the fall , and I still had my
San Diego
GPE
affiliation .
yeah . %um , in fact I 'm still officially on leave . If anything came up in
the next year
DATE
we could still go back . uh-huh . %uh you know , for
Sam
PERSON
. Wow . But I think it 's very very very very yeah . unlikely . yeah . But at any rate it was nice to hear from her because she said after
two years
DATE
there now , she %um has come to terms with this , and yeah . she 's accepted that there 's a lot of good things in
Rhode Island
GPE
. And , %um , you know , their life is a lot less complicated , and she has more time to be a parent .
yeah . Good . And she 's just not going to have the same kind of career that she had thought about .
Ron
PERSON
is working as a financial consultant for , %um ,
Meryl Lynch
PERSON
. And he oh . yeah , he had been doing work for some environmental firm , as a consultant . uh-huh . And , it did n't work out . %um He was changing projects
every couple of weeks
DATE
and he said he could n't keep on top of it . He could n't learn the whole new area %mm . that fast each time . %mm . %um , and he says he went in and had some tests , and he was diagnosed as having attention deficit disorder . Which you know , given how far he 's gotten , you know , he got his degree at
Tufts
ORG
and all , I found that surprising that for the
first
ORDINAL
time as an adult they 're diagnosing this . %um %mm . I wonder about it . But anyway . yeah , but that 's what he said .
And %um yeah . He %um Whatever 's helpful . Right . So he found this new job as a financial consultant and seems to be happy with that . Good . And then we saw
Leo
PERSON
and
Julie
PERSON
at
Christmas
DATE
time . uh-huh .
And they 're doing great . %um , they had just moved to He 's in
New York
GPE
now , right ? a really nice house in
Westchester
GPE
. yeah , Good . an older home that you know
Julie
PERSON
is of course carving up and making beautiful . %um uh-huh . Now she had a job with an architectural group when she
first
ORDINAL
got out to
New York
GPE
, and that did n't work out . She said they had her doing things that she really was n't qualified to do %ah . and that she really did n't feel competent doing . And , they mutually agreed that she should leave . And so she was looking for another job . And , %um , I 'm sure she 'll find one .
She 's so talented . She may have found
one
CARDINAL
by now . %um yeah , oh yeah . Amazing , yeah . yeah , and so we met , %um , %uh Adrian , their kid , who was
three
CARDINAL
uh-huh . and just a really lovely little boy . right yeah
He 's so big . Well , ,
Leo
PERSON
's big . You know , he 's got
Leo
PERSON
's genes . yeah . yeah . And %uh
Ron
PERSON
and
Doris
PERSON
sent us a picture of theirs and he has
Ron
PERSON
's expressions . He really looks like
Ron
PERSON
. oh that 's life . %um , and he looked really big too .
In this picture , he 's
three and a half
DATE
. yeah . %huh . %um , but
Leo
PERSON
and
Julie
PERSON
just seemed , %um sort of happy with the decisions they 've made . And Good . %um , like every now is he with a publishing house now ? Which one is he with . Yes which
one %
PERCENT
um
Well I can yeah It 's one of these sort of universi- the public university book stuff . It might be
Hard Core Brace
ORG
. I 'm not sure . oh yeah . I have
two
CARDINAL
friends in publishing . It may be the other one that just took the job with
Hard Core Brace
ORG
I do n't remember which one . yeah .
Anyway , he 's enjoying it and liking it and they 're doing okay . yeah he seems to feel really like he 's doing the right thing and he is Great still in academic publishing . My other friend just moved to trade publishing after
years
DATE
in academic publishing and mhm %um you know . It feels like maybe she made a compromise but it 's like
three
CARDINAL
times the money as with everything else so wow wow
industry and academics %um Terrible yeah it 's amazing and %um You know ages ago I got a card from
Liz Gana
PERSON
. I told you this . because %uh you showed us her picture . yeah yeah Crazy %um and I keep thinking maybe I 'd get in touch
but I have n't done it . and then I saw in the %um
Tufts
ORG
thing that Ginny Totta you know in the alumni thing is living in the yeah But %um , guessed what happened . What ? %um The %um Again ? %um 118.91_120.82_B: Let 's see ,
two weeks ago
DATE
I know
Sue
PERSON
is going to
Rhode Island
GPE
. %eh Right . Right . Did she see her mom ? Yes she did . And ? Yes she did . And ? %um , %um , which we had already anticipated that it was going to happen . I spoke to her mom on
Thursday
DATE
%um and I asked her I said listen I said %um please come to
Shabbat
PERSON
things have come to a point where I may have to relinquish my , %uh parenting . %uh would you mind %uh taking her back and she said no . She said %uh she 'd be more than happy to . Really ? This girl has everything in her dreams you know . it is as my husband says %uh , %uh
al kadir
PERSON
the destiny .
Selema
PERSON
I 'm telling you , it is like Allah has just painted the road and all I had to do was get on it and follow it . I mean things have been happening that has just scared the heck out of me . I told mom I said mom it is when you believe in Allah , when you have faith and know when you truly give your heart to Allah , only Allah can make the way clear for you . %uh . I believe that by her birthday she will be living with her mother . Really ? mhm mhm .
and is she seem like she 's together enough ? she 's in a
two year
DATE
program . She 's in the program now . She 's doing very well . When I talked to her I 'm talking to her like I 'm talking to you . I wrote her a letter and told her I said I feel like I know you even though I never met you . They seemed surprised that , I mean most women you lose your baby that 's it . But almighty God is
You never even get a chance to see them again . That 's true . That 's true . But that 's what she had wrote me . she said it is just awesome to her what is happening . yup . mhm . aw I 've heard of that . yup . So
Francis
PERSON
Did she say how she felt about what had happened ? No . we have n't really talked about that but I 'm planning on making a trip down to visit her . Well , how does Akina feel ? she 's , very happy about it . Very ha- Well did she come home and say I saw her , I look like her or what ? we talked on the phone and you know she talked about %um her sisters you know and things
we 've spent
the night
TIME
with her sisters and things and %um it 's just been quite interesting although when she was in
Rhode Island
GPE
she was very disruptive , %um down there and really caused
Francis
PERSON
a lot of stress and %um
Francis
PERSON
was very worried about me because she came home
two weeks
DATE
before you know %um because she just was acting like a total nigger child . uh-oh ! Hope the research did n't hear that ! uh-oh ! wait wait
Alita
PERSON
I 'm telling you nobody can handle her but you , okay .
And %um , but she was very concerned about me and everything %um because %um the child had told some lies about me and about you . oh . oh 296.72_297.91_A: oh no . And about oh yeah mhm oh goodness . yeah . That we were abusing , that %um you know ,
oh yeah she did some %eh , and it was very , very bad . My daughter - in - law
Barbara
PERSON
got on her case real serious
yesterday
DATE
. Told her that she could n't talk to
Jasmine
PERSON
play with
Jasmine
PERSON
because she said she hurt
Jasmine
PERSON
's
Jetta
PERSON
you know and she said that if it was n't for
Jetta
PERSON
you know
Jasmine
PERSON
's daddy would n't be oh she 'd oh man %uh it was aw . You know that has always been very scary to me even after .
I said to
Mark
PERSON
oh my god . What 's she going to say because I knew what she would do if I took her somewhere you know what she would say and I , you know in the climate of
today
DATE
, Yes . people saying something like that . That well , you know that 's and
Francis
PERSON
was very concerned in reference to you know she was in school and things and she was very , very concerned . Alita she said this little girl has a serious problem . She wrote me a letter mhm . you know about her needing a lot of love , a lot of %um help and different things like this ,
but you know you 've heard the saying I 'm sure from your grandmother the sins of your parents will be waged back at you , %hm . you know , %um and again my husband said we were going to give it a month , you know and said he was even going to have to sheik pray over her , you know for the jen . %hm . You know , I mean , we 're d- , you know , and I think we 're still going to be doing that but I think he 's at a point now where he 's reserved us of that %um , you know that she may end up going %um to %uh t- oh well the thing is your whole life has been around her mhm . more or less mhm . mhm . I mean it is you know I mean absorbed
mhm . mhm . where is , you know mhm %mm . and you know , I mean this is a lousy %eh I truly believe that **
Salem
GPE
** I do n't think , you think she 'll be better with her mother ? I have no idea . I really have no idea .
But %um , but you know the , if this does happen and I do believe it may happen , %um you know we will have an agreement , she and I , you know , %um she will become the legal guardian and that %um %uh you know I just want her to understand everything that has happened in
the last several years
DATE
yeah . and things like that . She needs to be clear about that because this child wo n't be like the other two . %eh %eh You know , %um Well , she said that she was .
Andre
PERSON
said that she was . oh yeah . She was like her
two
CARDINAL
daughters ,
yeah . mhm . yeah . they had the same , maybe just problems and different , she has n't been with her children for
ten years
DATE
. Her , or her
two
CARDINAL
girls . %ah . And they 're
twelve
CARDINAL
and , no they 're
nine
CARDINAL
and
thirteen
CARDINAL
or something like that .
yup , but she 's working very hard . She 's trying to become a counselor in this drug program , and things and she sounds like she 's really trying hard . and I just believe it 's you know time , you know and , who would have ever thought it though , you know what I mean ? Does she know that you 're
Muslim
NORP
? mhm . mhm .
uh-huh yup . yup . yup %um So that 's been my most interesting things in
the last three weeks
DATE
. oh that 's some deep , that 's just too deep . yup . yup .
mhm . yup . Been very , very , very , heavy . like mom said she said even if it was going to be in
September
DATE
, she said the little things I can tolerate you know if that happens you know . But you know I always worried you know even after you left I said , I just hope
Arlita
PERSON
knows that you know I tried my best you know and
Everybody
ORG
has to keep them ,
Selema
PERSON
, everybody , everybody You know , and I told her I said you know it 's a shame that you ca n't go no place and I can get a good report on you you know , %um , and by her going to
Francis
PERSON
and things , and
Francis
PERSON
seeing for herself , she was like whoa .
did
Francis
PERSON
feel she had changed a lot ? oh yes . t- , oh yes . You know , mhm , mhm . a- , %ah . %um , %um , but you know I feel very at peace about everything . uh-huh . I feel very at peace you know .
Well it 's good to hear from
Francis
PERSON
who 's had a lot of child- Yes . Over
six hundred
CARDINAL
. oh . Over
six hundred
CARDINAL
foster children . oh . Yes . mhm . You know she would 've seen it all . She called mom to talk to mom
let 's see she bought , I met her in
Albany
GPE
mhm . and she bought her %um she caught , that was on
Friday
DATE
last Friday
DATE
she called mom
Monday
DATE
And talked to mom for
two hours
TIME
uh-huh . %mm . She talked to mom here in
Rochester
GPE
.
oh you 're kidding I was sick up in
Syracuse
GPE
. She talked to mom . something must 've been on her mind . she told mom she said she was so concerned that this little girl was going to just get out here cause I was n't going to send back to the school , the
Muslim
NORP
school . uh-huh . And she was just really concerned about you know everything . mhm you know . What the possibilities of like Sure . Sure .
yep . mhm . mhm . Well you know or luck making a way and making it at ease for you to Well you know why Allah is doing this . I 'm going to tell you why because my daughter - in - law is pregnant again . oh no ! She said she was going to call you . She said she was going to call you .
%ah I said well you call
Selema
NORP
and you tell her . I said oh and I do n't have your number in my other phonebook I said . I said you just call her and tell her yup she sure is . oh my goodness . Goodness . Wait , wait ,
did they do like %uh the same thing they had to do last time ? No . You know what ? That same thing happened to
Aliah
GPE
. No . She had to take all that stuff the
first
ORDINAL
time but then the
second
ORDINAL
time Nope . She yup .
yup . j- , j- , %uh , and mom said , I mean
Jasmine
PERSON
was
about two months old
DATE
mom said oh goodness . %eh , I mean cause
Jasmine
PERSON
is not nowhere like my other little babies . She is not cuddly sweet . %mm , %mm , no w- She do n't have time for that %uh . She does not sit still or lay still for you to change her
Pampers
ORG
.
This little girl moves . I mean you lay her down on the bed she gets up and she runs from , well she does n't run but she crawls real fast . And she has t- aw And you 're like okay . And she 's not a cuddly sweet little thing , she ,
and she climbs up the stairs ,
Selema
PERSON
. She 's
seven months old
DATE
and she 's climbing up the stairs . Climbs down the stairs and mom said so we found out , when did we find out
Barbara
PERSON
was pregnant ?
Last week
DATE
, we found out and mom told her mom said ,
Barbara
PERSON
,
Jasmine
PERSON
is just moving she 's moving out the way too quickly
she just was not a little sweet little cuddly you know , no way %uh lay there let me look at my grandmother kind of thing No no way not one bit . oh oh
Amway
ORG
is probably going to have a rule though I could just But %uh , yeah , it 's still a fairly expensive call %uh but it 's a lot less expensive if we do it that way than if we actually make my parents in law pay it ,
then it the
Dutch
NORP
have such high taxes on those they consider it a luxury to call around the world so they tax it really high . Anyway %um So you guys will be in either the eighteenth or the nineteenth and you 're going to go to %uh
Amsterdam
GPE
. Well I would say is once you 're at a hotel uh-huh %um , why do n't you call me at work and let me know where you are , and then we can make arrangements that day %um , that I can meet you in
Amsterdam
GPE
. And maybe I 'll come by , public transport .
It 's probably easier for me to come by public transport in
Amsterdam
GPE
than it is for me to come by car to be honest . mhm . The streets are small and there 's no parking . So I probably will come by public transport but I do n't know . We 'll see where you 're staying %um and there 's a lot more for you guys if you want to see stuff you can see stuff in
Amsterdam
GPE
and %uh since
the days
DATE
are really long , I mean it stays light here till
about ten thirty eleven o'clock
TIME
mhm . at night . So if you want we can take a ride and go see stuff at night and I can take you to some places , we can %uh go see some stuff . %um , depends on what you guys want to see . So you guys should pick out the things you want to see and let me know . okay %um and I 'll sit and talk with
Anya
PERSON
about some things that maybe we think that it would be neat for you to see . So if you do n't have any ideas we 'll just put something together for you .
okay . %um but yeah but I can pick you up th- , you know I 'll probably be there some time around six and we can like do a quick dinner or something yeah and go see whatever you want to see , if you want to stay in
Amsterdam
GPE
that 's fine . If you want to go %uh off into the countryside somewhere and see a little bit of , echte
Holland
GPE
, real
Holland
GPE
and we can do that too . Actually I 've been up to
Holland
GPE
before . Spent
about two weeks
DATE
up there . yeah .
So %um , but that was
years
DATE
and years ago . With your parents when your father was stationed over here , right ? yeah . But we got to see
Den Haag
PERSON
and places like that too which we 're obviously not going to see this time . But %um has
Kim
PERSON
been here before ? And , an- No . oh good .
But then again I 'm not sure that
Kim
PERSON
would be interested in seeing
Shape Headquarters
PERSON
and you know all that kind of stuff . those military things . Would you be interested in seeing
Shape Headquarters
PERSON
again . No . Not really . yeah . I did n't think so . Somehow I had this feeling that the military taste had been beaten out of you . yep . I 'm , the mil- , I ca n't say too bad things about the military though .
They still have my goods and they 'll probably hold them hostage . And they own my body and soul for like another four years so I just got to pray that they oh do they ? yeah . I owe
four years
DATE
in active reserve time . aw great . Do they do that to everyone ?
Milo
PERSON
, get out of there
yeah -- -- %eh everyone %uh who has n't been like you were you went through like the thirty six two process . mhm . So you do n't have it but yeah if you just separate normally and you have n't served
at least eight years
DATE
, then you owe it . And that 's one of those things they just never tell you up front . No . They never said anything I figured there was something like that because And I was in the inactive reserves the entire time I was in college too .
So . yeah . I mean that 's the military . I have my discharge papers and everything uh-huh . and I 've said that yeah I will give a urine sample or a blood sample if they call me back for those , but they 're going to have to pay my trip back to the states . because there 's no bases in
Holland
GPE
and I 'm not going to pay out of my own expenses to go to
Germany
GPE
or something for them . If they want me they can pay , bring me back active duty and pay me for
the day
DATE
if they 're going to drag me off somewhere . But %uh ,
first
ORDINAL
they have to find me .
yeah , that 's the other it was i- , if you 're in another country I mean and you 're not planning on coming back to
the U S
GPE
what are they going to do even if you do n't . yeah . Well I mean I 'm still
American
NORP
citizen and I still would like to be welcome in my own country . Although g- %uh I mean if they denied my citizenship and I became a citizen here I probably would n't be a horror either , but %uh yeah right now I mean I do want to keep my
American
NORP
citizenship
so . I kind of want to Are you going to become a dual citizen ? What 's that ? Are you going to try and become a dual citizen ? Have dual citizenship ? You ca n't do that , %um , the only way to be a dual citizen is if you 're born in a foreign country like if I were born in
Holland
GPE
and then had
American
NORP
parents . Then I could be a dual citizen . But you ca n't
If I would to ask to become a citizen in
Holland
GPE
I would automatically lose my
American
NORP
citizenship . As far as the
Americans
NORP
are concerned , yeah . yeah . The
Dutch
NORP
could care less . The
Dutch
NORP
would say fine want to be a dual citizen , that 's fine , but the
Americans
NORP
as soon as you ask for another citizenship that act of asking for it takes away your
American
NORP
citizenship . I mean it 's kind of stupid . yeah .
So I 'm an expatriot . An
American
NORP
expatriot . An
American
NORP
living abroad . I still have to file a tax return . Do you ? yeah . But my
first
ORDINAL
seventy five thousand dollars worth of income is tax free . Good grief . As long as I do n't bring it back to the states . Good grief .
I R S for you , %huh ? yeah . oh they want their share . They want their piece of meat . But all foreign taxes are deductible , and my taxes here are
fifty percent
PERCENT
of income . So the taxes here are so much higher that , yeah I would never have to worry about it . Unless you became C E O of the company then maybe like
a thousand dollars
MONEY
would be taxable , right ? yeah . Somehow it raises a small amount .
the problem 's going to %uh be
Anya
GPE
's
American
NORP
salary is taxable here and at
fifty percent
PERCENT
so we 're going to owe some money to the
Dutch
NORP
government on her salary . aw . Some amount that has to be deducted a certain amount and the amount we pay the
American
NORP
government is deductible , but we 'll still owe some taxes . Th- , see I do n't know how it works . we 're going to be in need of some sort of accountant do it cause I have no clue how that all works .
They do n't have the
Quicken Dutch
ORG
version ? yeah . %ah , you know I would n't trust it because it 's so complicated with this international garbage or else
the Turbo Tax with
LAW
the
Dutch
NORP
modules . that I just would n't trust it . I do n't know , %eh . yeah . So complicated when you 're dealing with a
Dutch
NORP
tax form .
Anya
PERSON
had to read it and
Anya
PERSON
and her father did n't understand the damn thing . How am I supposed to understand it ? I 'm really looking forward to moving to
Oregon
GPE
and dealing with ,
Oregon
GPE
you pay state tax
Washington
GPE
you do n't . I 'm looking forward to that cause %uh yeah but You 'll be a student so you , I mean you 're what is your income ? oh , well See I think y- , %um ,
it 'll probably be
about five thousand dollars
MONEY
the portion of
this year
DATE
that I 'm in
Oregon
GPE
and then
next year
DATE
it 'll be
eleven thousand
CARDINAL
. yeah . But I mean you 're below the poverty line at that level . yeah . So I mean any income that y- Well But then I 've already made say like
fifteen thousand
DATE
or whatever here in
Washington
GPE
but That should be non taxable out of state income .
It should but you know it 's not going to be a fun tax return year . I had that when I went into the military . But then again . I had Kans- , I had to file
three
CARDINAL
taxes . I had to file
Georgia
GPE
,
Kansas
GPE
yeah and then my federal . So . Well , %um actually I think this phone call 's just about to end cause it 's
only half an hour
TIME
, but %um
So let 's see . I 'll give you a call when we arrive in h- , or maybe I 'll just call you when we get in
Holland
GPE
just to let you know we 're there , so if we get in the eighteenth or the nineteenth and then call you back %um when we get to a hotel or something like that . okay that 's a great idea . as soon as you get into
Holland
GPE
and get yourself settled you can call me and %uh if it 's at night , just call
Anya
GPE
's parents okay so and remember that if you dial in
Holland
GPE
you need to add a
zero
CARDINAL
so like right now okay it 's
one eight one zero
CARDINAL
area code .
If you dial in
Holland
GPE
, it 's
zero
CARDINAL
one eight one zero
QUANTITY
. okay in
Holland
GPE
and then yeah you can just call up if it 's during
the work hours
TIME
, fine , call me at work . If not , call
Anya
GPE
's parents if you do n't have a new phone number for me . And if you do , I 'll send it by email okay if I get it before
this weekend
DATE
we 'll email you something but if you do n't get email then just call
Anya
GPE
's parents If we have a phone by then , they 'll be able to give you the number okay and just remember to ask for her mother .
and it 's
Goode
GPE
, right
Bode Bode Bode
PERSON
as in abode abode minus the A okay great and yeah
and I think %uh %uh it 's not Frau %uh %ah %uh It 's
Mifrau
PERSON
is it 's Frau in
German
NORP
it 's Frau mhm and then
Dutch
NORP
it 's
Mifrau
PERSON
I 'll probably never remember that so hope they wo n't be offended . nah do n't worry about it .
You can just call her Missus you can just call her
Missus
PRODUCT
and speak
English
LANGUAGE
to her . she understands just talk slowly and clearly . okay and once you 're in
Holland
GPE
the line will be really clear . I mean the phones here are pretty good . once you 're in the country . It 's just these to
America
GPE
it 's always kind of iffy
So , anyway , how are you doing these days ? Things are going very well . I think I had mentioned before %uh , that there 's a company now that I 'm working with %um , %uh , which is very much just myself and
Guss
PERSON
. oh . And that %um No , you had n't mentioned that . %eh , oh , okay . okay , so %um %eh you told me that you were leaving the company that you were at , and you were entertaining offers .
And , %uh well it seemed to make sense since I had a client to just kind of set up my own company , of sorts . %um oh . So things are going extremely well . So , I had
one
CARDINAL
client who said that he 'd pay me a minimum amount . You know , he , %uh , there would be a minimum amount of work , of
about %
PERCENT
uh ,
a day a week
DATE
for
the next two three years
DATE
. mhm . Which is sufficient to pay all my bills then so I decided that it would make sense to do this . %um and , %um , I 've been getting substantially more work than then . %mm . So I 'm quite pleased .
Well that 's good . %um , so I have a bunch of %uh work that I need to do on my flat
this year
DATE
. I 've been telling you that I needed to do that roof atrium for quite some time . But , %uh , it should come out
this year
DATE
. oh , well that 's good . It should be done in
a few months
DATE
. oh , yeah I remember So you talking a little bit about it at
one
CARDINAL
point . yeah , yeah .
So you have no intentions of coming over this way any time soon ? %um . I do n't see the finances occurring uh-huh , right . for a while . %um , actually right at the moment finances are not going real well . But %ah well . I am working on that one . %uh . It 's just But %um %uh , %uh , the main reason for that is I had not really anticipated a few expenses that recently came up %ah . %uh , related to a couple of burglaries that I had . oh , harsh .
Harsh
PERSON
. yeah . yeah , and .
Not a whole lot I can do about that now . Indeed . Indeed . have to deal with the situation . And So that 's what I 'm doing . Sounds good . But %um Anyway , %uh
One
CARDINAL
of the main reasons that I 've been such a pathetic , %uh , correspondent has been work . I 've actually been doing a lot of it . oh wow .
And %uh , I turned in my Master 's thesis back in
May
DATE
, and I 'm actually presently working on , %um , several , %uh , articles oh , okay . Impressive . from it . yeah , actually it turns out that
one
CARDINAL
thing , one little bit in what I was doing , %uh , is going to turn out to be very important in the end . %uh , from what I had been reading in the literature . You see the one very annoying thing about all of this , was my advisor has been in
France
GPE
for
a year and a half
DATE
. yeah . And this made writing my thesis very annoying because you know there was n't much discussion . yeah . yup , yup .
But , %um Anyway , I had been kind of telling him that , you know , from my reading of the literature , I thought that this one little alteration I had made in my model was kind of clever and unique . mhm . And it made the
one
CARDINAL
type of solution occur , which was seen experimentally , but none of the other models %uh , had ? Yes . the- , I 'm looking at , %um , multi mode lasers . And
one
CARDINAL
of the things that they find experimentally are what they call anti phased , %uh , states , where if you look at the total intensity uh-huh . of the laser , you get an oscillation which is characterized by
one
CARDINAL
frequency . Yes . okay .
if you separate out the different modes of the laser mhm . and look at
one
CARDINAL
of those , you get
more than one
CARDINAL
frequency . okay . So what 's happening is that the modes are oscillating out of phase so that they completely mask each other 's Exactly . %hm . oscillations on these other frequencies . And %uh With a pretty simple model you can find that frequency in a transient , but you ca n't find that frequency in a driven , %uh , frequency . You ca n't find so that it will sustain . okay . Yes . So yeah , that particular frequency according to most models damps out very quickly . And so you should n't actually really be able to ever see it .
%hm . The only thing is , that , when you do the experiment you see it . Got it , got it . I see . So , %um , I found a simple modification of the original formula , which unfortunately makes the solutions horrendously nasty . And in most cases , %uh , insoluble . But yeah . it gives a driving term . oh , okay . So , it actually creates a situation where you get the right sort of answer , you just ca n't always write it down very easily . Exactly .
oh wow . so you 're pushing forward the bounds of theoretical laser , %uh , whatever it is science . But which , %um , is kind of interesting considering that that 's not really my thing . . Indeed . Indeed . being an experimentalist , not a theorist . %um Indeed . oh wow . oh , impressive . But so are you going to get an article in
Nature
WORK_OF_ART
or something ? %um , actually , I 'm not sure if we 're shooting for op- , I think
Optics Letters
ORG
is probably the one that we 're shooting for , or else , perhaps , though I do n't think it 's quite that significant , would be
Phys Rev Letters
ORG
. %hm . But , %uh , we want to write a letter , and then a couple articles .
yeah . %hm . impressive . And I do n't know how much you know about scientific literature , but letters are much more prestigious than , articles . oh , okay . oh , I did n't realize that . okay . yeah , so that 's why it 's actually a big deal is I mean , you know , writing a couple of articles based on your Master 's thesis , is , not at all unusual in
Physics
ORG
and yeah . %uh , it 's the fact that I would be writing a letter that is the impressive part of it all . And what 's actually kind of interesting is I kept telling
Neil
PERSON
that I thought that this was kind of significant . And
Neil
PERSON
kept writing back that I should tone this part of the thesis down that You know , people see the anti phased motion , and it 's true they do in the transients And I was having a lot of trouble getting across to him that all of the literature has this frequency in the transients Yes . %eh and not driven . And , %uh , what happened was after I had turned in my thesis but before I saw
Neil
PERSON
again , he went to a conference in
Rochester
GPE
and there this was a big issue among the people who were doing this work , was , that their models could n't show this as a driven frequency , yet their experiments showed it as a driven frequency . oh cool .
and so
Neil
PERSON
then -- Said oh just a
second
ORDINAL
I -- like
a week later
DATE
came to
Bryn Mawr
PERSON
and he said , hey
Lowell
GPE
, we got to write this up . Exactly . And I was like , well I 've been telling you that
Neil
PERSON
. Indeed . So Cool . Cool . that 's mostly the sort of stuff that I 'm spending a lot of time on now . %um Well it 'll look good on your C V , your resume . so you might as well spend the time . Yes , well , %uh , no , it 's definitely worth doing . %um ,
and I would have been spending more time on it if it were n't for %uh dealing with the burglary issues oh yeah but that I 've been dealing with . So are you still living in that house in the middle of the park . Yes . yeah , okay . yeah . I mean the thing that i- this place is incredibly easy to break into if you want to . oh . It 's not a question of whether or not , %uh you know , that was easy , it was just that no one really knew it was worth breaking into .
Exactly . Exactly . yeah . And so the problem is that now they found out that it 's worth breaking into . yeah . And unfortunately . Well , it 's kind of odd . They 've stolen very weird things for the most part . %hm . as far
yeah as a . The
first
ORDINAL
time they broke in , what they stole was just bizarre , mostly worthless stuff . And , %uh %huh the most worthwhile thing as far as monetary value went that they stole was the pre-amplifier of my stereo . Unfortunately , because it 's a nice pre-amplifier , it has an off board power supply which they did n't steal , which makes the thing that they **stoled** absolutely worthless . %huh . So . That 's bizarre . Bizarre . so when they broke in the
second
ORDINAL
time did they steal the %uh offboard amplifier ?
Actually , no , all they stole the
second
ORDINAL
time was my bike . %huh . Which was actually where the major problem came . Exactly . Exactly . yeah . Is that I suddenly had no transportation . And so , I then had to go bike hunting and eventually get another bike , and %mm . that cost me a lot of time . yeah . Exactly . Because , yes
Spending a lot of time hunting for bikes , and nah well . then getting one purchased , and then having to , you know , go get it and things like that . But , that 's dealt with at least . And so %uh , that 's yeah at least dealt with . Now I just have to work on the financial aspects of all of this . But yeah . yeah . At least Well that would make sense during the summer %uh according to the stipulations of my fellowship , I can actually earn money during
the summer
DATE
. The
fifth
ORDINAL
angel blew his trumpet . Then I saw a star fall from the sky to the earth . The star was given the key to the deep hole that leads down to the bottomless pit .
Then the star opened the hole leading to the pit . Smoke came up from the hole like smoke from a big furnace . The sun and sky became dark because of the smoke from the hole . Then locusts came out of the smoke and went down to the earth . They were given the power to sting like scorpions . They were told not to damage the fields of grass or any plant or tree . They were to hurt only those who did not have God 's mark on their foreheads . They were not given the power to kill them but only to cause them pain for
five months
DATE
-- pain like a person feels when stung by a scorpion . During those days people will look for a way to die , but they will not find it . They will want to die , but death will hide from them .
The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle . On their heads they wore something that looked like a gold crown . Their faces looked like human faces . Their hair was like women 's hair . Their teeth were like lions ' teeth . Their chests looked like iron breastplates . The sound their wings made was like the noise of many horses and chariots hurrying into battle . The locusts had tails with stingers like scorpions . The power they had to give people pain for
five months
DATE
was in their tails . They had a ruler , who was the angel of the bottomless pit .
His name in
Hebrew
GPE
is
Abaddon
ORG
. In
Greek
NORP
it is
Apollyon
GPE
. The
first
ORDINAL
terror is now past . There are still
two
CARDINAL
other terrors to come . The
sixth
ORDINAL
angel blew his trumpet . Then I heard a voice coming from the horns on the
four
CARDINAL
corners of
the golden altar
FAC
that is before God . It said to the
sixth
ORDINAL
angel who had the trumpet , " Free the
four
CARDINAL
angels who are tied at the great river
Euphrates
LOC
. " These
four
CARDINAL
angels had been kept ready for
this hour
TIME
and day and month and year . The angels were set free to kill
a third
CARDINAL
of all the people on the earth . I heard how many troops on horses were in their army .
There were
200
CARDINAL
,
000
CARDINAL
,
000
CARDINAL
. In my vision , I saw the horses and the riders on the horses . They looked like this : They had breastplates that were fiery red , dark blue , and yellow like sulfur . The heads of the horses looked like heads of lions . The horses had fire , smoke , and sulfur coming out of their mouths .
A third
CARDINAL
of all the people on earth were killed by these
three
CARDINAL
plagues coming out of the horses ' mouths : the fire , the smoke , and the sulfur . The horses ' power was in their mouths and also in their tails . Their tails were like snakes that have heads to bite and hurt people . The other people on earth were not killed by these plagues . But these people still did not change their hearts and turn away from worshiping the things they had made with their own hands .
They did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold , silver , bronze , stone , and wood -- things that can not see or hear or walk . They did not change their hearts and turn away from killing other people or from their evil magic , their sexual sins , and their stealing . After this I heard what sounded like a large crowd of people in heaven . The people were saying , " Hallelujah ! Victory , glory , and power belong to our God . His judgments are true and right . Our God has punished the prostitute . She is the one who ruined the earth with her sexual sin . God has punished the prostitute to pay her back for the death of his servants . "
These people also said , " Hallelujah ! She is burning and her smoke will rise forever and ever . " Then the
24
CARDINAL
elders and the
four
CARDINAL
living beings bowed down . They worshiped God , who sits on the throne . They said , " Amen ! Hallelujah ! " Then a voice came from the throne and said , " Praise our God , all you who serve him ! Praise our God , all you small and great who honor him ! " Then I heard something that sounded like a large crowd of people . It was as loud as crashing waves or claps of thunder .
The people were saying , " Hallelujah ! Our Lord God rules . He is the All - Powerful . Let us rejoice and be happy and give God glory ! Give God glory , because the wedding of the
Lamb
PERSON
has come . And the
Lamb
PERSON
's bride has made herself ready . Fine linen was given to the bride for her to wear . The linen was bright and clean . " -LRB- The fine linen means the good things that God 's holy people did .
-RRB-
PERSON
Then the angel said to me , " Write this : Great blessings belong to those who are invited to the wedding meal of the Lamb ! "
Then the angel said , " These are the true words of God . " Then I bowed down before the angel 's feet to worship him . But the angel said to me , " Do n't worship me ! I am a servant like you and your brothers and sisters who have the truth of
Jesus
PERSON
. So worship God ! Because the truth of
Jesus
PERSON
is the spirit of prophecy . " Then I saw heaven open . There before me was a white horse . The rider on the horse was called
Faithful and True
WORK_OF_ART
, because he is right in his judging and in making war . His eyes were like burning fire .
He had many crowns on his head . A name was written on him , but he was the only one who knew its meaning . He was dressed in a robe dipped in blood , and he was called
the Word of God
WORK_OF_ART
. The armies of heaven were following the rider on the white horse . They were also riding white horses . They were dressed in fine linen , white and clean . A sharp sword came out of the rider 's mouth , a sword that he would use to defeat the nations . And he will rule the nations with a rod of iron . He will crush the grapes in the winepress of the terrible anger of God All - Powerful . On his robe and on his leg was written this name : king of kings and lord of lords Then I saw an angel standing in the sun .
In a loud voice the angel said to all the birds flying in the sky , " Come together for the great supper of God . Come together so that you can eat the bodies of rulers and army commanders and famous men . Come to eat the bodies of the horses and their riders and the bodies of all people -- free , slave , small , and great . " Then I saw the beast and the rulers of the earth . Their armies were gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army . But the beast was captured , and the false prophet was also captured . He was the one who did the miracles for the beast . He had used these miracles to trick those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its idol . The false prophet and the beast were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur . Their armies were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse .
All the birds ate these bodies until they were full . The
first
ORDINAL
agreement had rules for worship and a place for worship here on earth . This place was inside a tent . The
first
ORDINAL
area in the tent was called
the Holy Place
ORG
. In
the Holy Place
FAC
were the lamp and the table with the special bread offered to God . Behind the
second
ORDINAL
curtain was a room called
the Most Holy Place
WORK_OF_ART
. In the Most Holy Place was a golden altar for burning incense . And also there was the Box of the Agreement . The
Box
PERSON
was covered with gold .
Inside this
Box
PERSON
was a golden jar of manna and
Aaron
PERSON
's rod -- the rod that once grew leaves . Also in the Box were the flat stones with
the Ten Commandments
ORG
of the old agreement on them . Above the Box were the
Cherub
PERSON
angels that showed
God
PERSON
's glory . These
Cherub
PERSON
angels were over the place of mercy . But we can not say everything about this now . Everything in the tent was made ready in the way I have explained . Then the priests went into the
first
ORDINAL
room every day to do their worship duties . But only the high priest could go into the
second
ORDINAL
room , and he went in only once a year . Also , he could never enter that room without taking blood with him . He offered that blood to God for himself and for the sins the people committed without knowing they were sinning .
The Holy Spirit uses those
two
CARDINAL
separate rooms to teach us that the way into
the Most Holy Place
WORK_OF_ART
was not open while the
first
ORDINAL
room was still there . This is an example for us
today
DATE
. It shows that the gifts and sacrifices the priests offer to God are not able to make the consciences of the worshipers completely clear . These gifts and sacrifices are only about food and drink and special washings . They are only rules about the body . God gave them for his people to follow until the time of his new way . But
Christ
ORG
has already come to be the high priest . He is the high priest of the good things we now have . But
Christ
ORG
does not serve in a place like the tent that those other priests served in . He serves in a better place .
Unlike that tent , this one is perfect . It was not made by anyone here on earth . It does not belong to this world . Christ entered
the Most Holy Place
ORG
only one time -- enough for all time . He entered the Most Holy Place by using his own blood , not the blood of goats or young bulls . He entered there and made us free from sin forever . The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a cow were sprinkled on those who were no longer pure enough to enter the place of worship . The blood and ashes made them pure again -- but only their bodies . So surely the blood sacrifice of
Christ
ORG
can do much more . Christ offered himself through the eternal
Spirit
ORG
as a perfect sacrifice to God .
His blood will make us completely clean from the evil we have done . It will give us clear consciences so that we can worship the living God . So Christ brings a new agreement from God to his people . He brings this agreement so that those who are chosen by God can have the blessings God promised , blessings that last forever . This can happen only because Christ died to free people from sins committed against the commands of the
first
ORDINAL
agreement . When someone dies and leaves a will , there must be proof that the one who wrote the will is dead . A will means nothing while the one who wrote it is still living . It can be used only after that person 's death . That is why blood was needed to begin the
first
ORDINAL
agreement between God and his people .
First
ORDINAL
,
Moses
PERSON
told the people every command in the law .
Then he took the blood of young bulls and mixed it with water . He used red wool and a branch of hyssop to sprinkle the blood and water on the book of the law and on all the people . Then he said , " This is the blood that makes the agreement good -- the agreement that God commanded you to follow . " In the same way ,
Moses
PERSON
sprinkled the blood on
the Holy Tent
FAC
. He sprinkled the blood over everything used in worship . The law says that almost everything must be made clean by blood . Sins can not be forgiven without a blood sacrifice . These things are copies of the real things that are in heaven . These copies had to be made clean by animal sacrifices . But the real things in heaven must have much better sacrifices .
Christ went into
the Most Holy Place
LAW
. But it was not the man - made one , which is only a copy of the real one . He went into heaven , and he is there now before God to help us . The high priest enters
the Most Holy Place
ORG
once every year . He takes with him blood to offer . But he does not offer his own blood like
Christ
ORG
did . Christ went into heaven , but not to offer himself many times like the high priest offers blood again and again . If
Christ
ORG
had offered himself many times , he would have needed to suffer many times since the time the world was made . But he came to offer himself only once . And that once is enough for all time .
He came at a time when the world is nearing an end . He came to take away all sin by offering himself as a sacrifice . Everyone must die once . Then they are judged . So Christ was offered as a sacrifice one time to take away the sins of many people . And he will come a
second
ORDINAL
time , but not to offer himself for sin . He will come the
second
ORDINAL
time to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him .
Jesus
PERSON
called his
twelve
CARDINAL
apostles together . He gave them power to heal sicknesses and power to force demons out of people .
He sent them to tell about God 's kingdom and to heal the sick . He said to them , " When you travel , do n't take a walking stick . Also , do n't carry a bag , food , or money . Take for your trip only the clothes you are wearing . When you go into a house , stay there until it is time to leave . If the people in the town will not welcome you , go outside the town and shake the dust off your feet as a warning to them . " So the apostles went out . They traveled through all the towns . They told
the Good News
ORG
and healed people everywhere .
Herod
PERSON
the ruler heard about all these things that were happening .
He was confused because some people said , "
John the Baptizer
WORK_OF_ART
has risen from death . " Others said , " Elijah has come to us . " And some others said , "
One
CARDINAL
of the prophets from long ago has risen from death . "
Herod
PERSON
said , " I cut off
John
PERSON
's head . So who is this man I hear these things about ? "
Herod
PERSON
continued trying to see
Jesus
PERSON
. When the apostles came back , they told
Jesus
PERSON
what they had done on their trip . Then he took them away to a town called
Bethsaida
ORG
. There , he and his apostles could be alone together . But the people learned where
Jesus
PERSON
went and followed him .
He welcomed them and talked with them about God 's kingdom . He healed the people who were sick .
Late in the afternoon
TIME
, the
twelve
CARDINAL
apostles came to
Jesus
PERSON
and said , " No one lives in this place . Send the people away . They need to find food and places to sleep in the farms and towns around here . " But
Jesus
PERSON
said to the apostles , " You give them something to eat . " They said , " We have
only five
CARDINAL
loaves of bread and
two
CARDINAL
fish . Do you want us to go buy food for all these people ? " There are too many ! -LRB- There were
about 5000
CARDINAL
men there .
-RRB-
PERSON
Jesus
PERSON
said to his followers , " Tell the people to sit in groups of
about 50
CARDINAL
people . " So the followers did this and everyone sat down . Then
Jesus
PERSON
took the
five
CARDINAL
loaves of bread and
two
CARDINAL
fish . He looked up into the sky and thanked God for the food . Then he broke it into pieces , which he gave to the followers to give to the people . They all ate until they were full . And there was a lot of food left .
Twelve
CARDINAL
baskets were filled with the pieces of food that were not eaten .
One
CARDINAL
time
Jesus
PERSON
was praying alone . His followers came together there , and he asked them , " Who do the people say I am ? "
They answered , " Some people say you are
John the
PERSON
Baptizer
PERSON
. Others say you are
Elijah
ORG
. And some people say you are one of the prophets from long ago that has come back to life . " Then
Jesus
PERSON
said to his followers , " And who do you say I am ? "
Peter
PERSON
answered , " You are the Christ from God . "
Jesus
PERSON
warned them not to tell anyone . Then
Jesus
PERSON
said , "
The Son of Man
WORK_OF_ART
must suffer many things . He will be rejected by the older
Jewish
NORP
leaders , the leading priests , and teachers of the law . And he will be killed . But after
three days
DATE
he will be raised from death . "
Jesus
PERSON
continued to say to all of them , " Any of you who want to be my follower must stop thinking about yourself and what you want . You must be willing to carry the cross that is given to you every day for following me . Any of you who try to save the life you have will lose it . But you who give up your life for me will save it . It is worth nothing for you to have the whole world if you yourself are destroyed or lost . Do n't be ashamed of me and my teaching . If that happens , I will be ashamed of you when I come with my divine greatness and that of the Father and the holy angels . Believe me when I say that some of you people standing here will see God 's kingdom before you die . "
About eight days
DATE
after
Jesus
PERSON
said these things , he took
Peter
PERSON
,
John
PERSON
, and
James
PERSON
and went up on a mountain to pray . While
Jesus
PERSON
was praying , his face began to change .
His clothes became shining white . Then
two
CARDINAL
men were there , talking with him . They were
Moses and Elijah
ORG
. They also looked bright and glorious . They were talking with
Jesus
PERSON
about his death that would happen in
Jerusalem
GPE
.
Peter
PERSON
and the others were asleep . But they woke up and saw the glory of
Jesus
PERSON
. They also saw the
two
CARDINAL
men who were standing with him . When Moses and
Elijah
ORG
were leaving ,
Peter
PERSON
said , " Master , it is good that we are here .
We will put
three
CARDINAL
tents here -- one for you , one for
Moses
PERSON
, and one for
Elijah
ORG
. " -LRB- He did not know what he was saying .
-RRB-
PERSON
While
Peter
PERSON
was saying these things , a cloud came all around them .
Peter
PERSON
,
John
PERSON
, and
James
PERSON
were afraid when the cloud covered them . A voice came from the cloud and said , " This is my Son . He is the one I have chosen . Obey him . " When the voice stopped , only
Jesus
PERSON
was there .
Peter
PERSON
,
John
PERSON
, and
James
PERSON
said nothing . And for a long time after that , they told no one about what they had seen .
The next day
DATE
,
Jesus
PERSON
,
Peter
PERSON
,
John
PERSON
, and
James
PERSON
came down from the mountain . A large group of people met
Jesus
PERSON
. A man in the group shouted to him , " Teacher , please come and look at my son . He is the only child I have . An evil spirit comes into him , and then he shouts . He loses control of himself and foams at the mouth . The evil spirit continues to hurt him and almost never leaves him . I begged your followers to make the evil spirit leave my son , but they could not do it . "
Jesus
PERSON
answered , " You people
today
DATE
have no faith .
Your lives are all wrong . How long must I be with you and be patient with you ? " Then
Jesus
PERSON
said to the man , " Bring your son here . " While the boy was coming , the demon threw the boy to the ground . The boy lost control of himself . But
Jesus
PERSON
gave a strong command to the evil spirit . Then the boy was healed , and
Jesus
PERSON
gave him back to his father . All the people were amazed at the great power of God . The people were still amazed about all the things
Jesus
PERSON
did . He said to his followers , " Do n't forget what I will tell you now :
The Son of Man
WORK_OF_ART
will soon be handed over to the control of other men . "
But the followers did not understand what he meant . The meaning was hidden from them so that they could not understand it . But they were afraid to ask
Jesus
PERSON
about what he said .
Jesus
PERSON
' followers began to have an argument about which
one
CARDINAL
of them was the greatest .
Jesus
PERSON
knew what they were thinking , so he took a little child and stood the child beside him . Then he said to the followers , " Whoever accepts a little child like this in my name is accepting me . And anyone who accepts me is also accepting the one who sent me . The one among you who is the most humble -- this is the one who is great . "
John
PERSON
answered , " Master , we saw someone using your name to force demons out of people . We told him to stop because he does not belong to our group . "
Jesus
PERSON
said to him , " Do n't stop him . Whoever is not against you is for you . " The time was coming near when
Jesus
PERSON
would leave and go back to heaven . He decided to go to
Jerusalem
GPE
. He sent some men ahead of him . They went into a town in
Samaria
GPE
to make everything ready for him . But the people there would not welcome
Jesus
PERSON
because he was going toward
Jerusalem
GPE
.
James
PERSON
and
John
PERSON
, the followers of
Jesus
PERSON
, saw this . They said , " Lord , do you want us to call fire down from heaven and destroy those people ? " But
Jesus
PERSON
turned and criticized them for saying this .
Then he and his followers went to another town . They were all traveling along the road . Someone said to
Jesus
PERSON
, " I will follow you anywhere you go . " He answered , " The foxes have holes to live in . The birds have nests . But the Son of Man has no place where he can rest his head . "
Jesus
PERSON
said to another man , " Follow me ! " But the man said , " Lord , let me go and bury my father
first
ORDINAL
. " But
Jesus
PERSON
said to him , " Let the people who are dead bury their own dead . You must go and tell about God 's kingdom . "
Another man said , " I will follow you , Lord , but
first
ORDINAL
let me go and say goodbye to my family . "
Jesus
PERSON
said , " Anyone who begins to plow a field but looks back is not prepared for God 's kingdom . "
Jesus
PERSON
was going through the city of
Jericho
GPE
. In
Jericho
GPE
there was a man named
Zacchaeus
PERSON
. He was a wealthy , very important tax collector . He wanted to see who
Jesus
PERSON
was . There were many others who wanted to see
Jesus
PERSON
too .
Zacchaeus
PERSON
was too short to see above the people . So he ran to a place where he knew
Jesus
PERSON
would come .
Then he climbed a sycamore tree so he could see him . When
Jesus
PERSON
came to where
Zacchaeus
PERSON
was , he looked up and saw him in the tree .
Jesus
PERSON
said , "
Zacchaeus
PERSON
, hurry ! Come down ! I must stay at your house
today
DATE
. "
Zacchaeus
PERSON
hurried and came down . He was happy to have
Jesus
PERSON
in his house . Everyone saw this . They began to complain , " Look at the kind of man
Jesus
PERSON
is staying with .
Zacchaeus
PERSON
is a sinner ! "
Zacchaeus
PERSON
said to the Lord , " I want to do good . I will give
half
CARDINAL
of my money to the poor . If I have cheated anyone , I will pay them back
four
CARDINAL
times more . "
Jesus
PERSON
said , "
Today
DATE
is
the day
DATE
for this family to be saved from sin . Yes , even this tax collector is
one
CARDINAL
of
God
PERSON
's chosen people . The Son of Man came to find lost people and save them . " As the crowd listened to what he was saying ,
Jesus
PERSON
went on to tell a story . He was now near
Jerusalem
GPE
and knew that the people thought it was almost time for God 's kingdom to come . So he said , " A very important man was preparing to go to a country far away to be made a king . Then he planned to return home and rule his people .
So he called
ten
CARDINAL
of his servants together . He gave a bag of money to each servant . He said , ' Do business with this money until I come back . ' But the people in the kingdom hated the man . They sent a group to follow him to the other country . There they said , ' We do n't want this man to be our king . ' " But the man was made king . When he came home , he said , ' Call those servants who have my money . I want to know how much more money they earned with it . ' The
first
ORDINAL
servant came and said , ' Sir , I earned
ten
CARDINAL
bags of money with the
one
CARDINAL
bag you gave me . '
The king said to him , ' That 's great ! You are a good servant . I see that I can trust you with small things . So now I will let you rule over
ten
CARDINAL
of my cities . ' " The
second
ORDINAL
servant said , ' Sir , with your
one
CARDINAL
bag of money I earned
five
CARDINAL
bags . ' The king said to this servant , ' You can rule over
five
CARDINAL
cities . ' " Then another servant came in and said to the king , ' Sir , here is your bag of money . I wrapped it in a piece of cloth and hid it . I was afraid of you because you are a hard man . You even take money that you did n't earn and gather food that you did n't grow . '
" Then the king said to him , ' What a bad servant you are ! I will use your own words to condemn you . You said that I am a hard man . You said that I even take money that I did n't earn and gather food that I did n't grow . If that is true , you should have put my money in the bank . Then , when I came back , my money would have earned some interest . ' Then the king said to the men who were watching , ' Take the bag of money away from this servant and give it to the servant who earned
ten
CARDINAL
bags of money . ' " The men said to the king , ' But sir , that servant already has
ten
CARDINAL
bags of money . ' " The king said , ' People who use what they have will get more . But those who do not use what they have will have everything taken away from them .
Now where are my enemies ? Where are the people who did not want me to be king ? Bring my enemies here and kill them . I will watch them die . ' " After
Jesus
PERSON
said these things , he continued traveling toward
Jerusalem
GPE
. He came near
Bethphage
GPE
and
Bethany
LOC
, towns near the hill called
the Mount of Olives
LOC
. He sent out
two
CARDINAL
of his followers . He said , " Go into the town you can see there . When you enter the town , you will find a young donkey tied there that no one has ever ridden .
Untie it , and bring it here to me . If anyone asks you why you are taking the donkey , you should say , '
The Master
WORK_OF_ART
needs it . ' " The
two
CARDINAL
followers went into town . They found the donkey exactly like
Jesus
PERSON
told them . They untied it , but its owners came out . They said to the followers , " Why are you untying our donkey ? " The followers answered , "
The Master
WORK_OF_ART
needs it . " So the followers brought the donkey to
Jesus
PERSON
. They put their coats on its back . Then they put
Jesus
PERSON
on the donkey .
He rode along the road toward
Jerusalem
GPE
. The followers spread their coats on the road before him .
Jesus
PERSON
was coming close to
Jerusalem
GPE
. He was already near the bottom of
the Mount of Olives
LOC
. The whole group of followers was happy . They were very excited and praised God . They thanked God for all the powerful things they had seen . They said , " ' Welcome !
God
PERSON
bless the king who comes in the name of the Lord . ' Peace in heaven and glory to God ! "
Some of the
Pharisees
PERSON
said to
Jesus
PERSON
, " Teacher , tell your followers not to say these things . " But
Jesus
PERSON
answered , " I tell you , if my followers did n't say them , these stones would shout them . "
Jesus
PERSON
came near
Jerusalem
GPE
. Looking at the city , he began to cry for it and said , " I wish you knew
today
DATE
what would bring you peace . But it is hidden from you now . A time is coming when your enemies will build a wall around you and hold you in on all sides . They will destroy you and all your people . Not
one
CARDINAL
stone of your buildings will stay on top of another . All this will happen because you did not know the time when God came to save you . "
Jesus
PERSON
went into
the Temple area
LOC
.
He began to throw out the people who were selling things there . He said , "
The Scriptures
WORK_OF_ART
say , '
My Temple
ORG
will be a house of prayer . ' But you have changed it into a ' hiding place for thieves . ' "
Jesus
PERSON
taught the people in the Temple area every day . The leading priests , the teachers of the law , and some of the leaders of the people wanted to kill him . But they did not know how they could do it , because everyone was listening to him . The people were very interested in what
Jesus
PERSON
said . I am in Christ and I am telling you the truth . I am not lying .
And my conscience , ruled by the Holy Spirit , agrees that what I say now is true . I have great sorrow and always feel much sadness for my own people . They are my brothers and sisters , my earthly family . I wish I could help them . I would even have a curse on me and cut myself off from Christ if that would help them . They are the people of
Israel
GPE
, God 's chosen children . They have the glory of God and the agreements he made between himself and his people . God gave them
the Law of Moses
ORG
, the Temple worship , and his promises . They are the descendants of our great fathers , and they are the earthly family of
Christ
ORG
. And Christ is God over all things .
Praise him forever ! Amen . I do n't mean that God failed to keep his promise to the
Jewish
NORP
people . But only some of the people of
Israel
GPE
are really God 's people . And only some of
Abraham
PERSON
's descendants are true children of
Abraham
PERSON
. This is what God said to
Abraham
PERSON
: " Your true descendants will be those who come through
Isaac
PERSON
. " This means that not all of
Abraham
PERSON
's descendants are God 's true children .
Abraham
PERSON
's true children are those who become God 's children because of the promise he made to
Abraham
PERSON
. Here is what God said in that promise : " About this time
next year
DATE
I will come back , and
Sarah
PERSON
will have a son . " And that is not all .
Rebecca also had sons , and they had the same father . He is our father
Isaac
PERSON
. But before the
two
CARDINAL
sons were born , God told
Rebecca
PERSON
, " The older son will serve the younger . " This was before the boys had done anything good or bad .
God
PERSON
said this before they were born so that the boy he wanted would be chosen because of God 's own plan . He was chosen because he was the one God wanted to call , not because of anything the boys did . As the
Scriptures
ORG
say , " I loved
Jacob
PERSON
, but I hated Esau . " So what does this mean ? That God is not fair ? We can not say that .
God said to
Moses
PERSON
, " I will show mercy to anyone I want to show mercy to . I will show pity to anyone I choose . " So God will choose anyone he decides to show mercy to , and his choice does not depend on what people want or try to do . In the
Scriptures
ORG
God says to
Pharaoh
PERSON
: " I made you king so that you could do this for me . I wanted to show my power through you . I wanted my name to be announced throughout the world . " So God shows mercy to those he wants to show mercy to and makes stubborn those he wants to make stubborn . So one of you will ask me , " If God controls what we do , why does he blame us for our sins ? " Do n't ask that . You are only human and have no right to question God .
A clay jar does not question the one who made it . It does not say , " Why did you make me like this ? " The one who makes the jar can make anything he wants . He uses the same clay to make different things . He might make one thing for special purposes and another for
daily
DATE
use . It is the same way with what God has done . He wanted to show his anger and to let people see his power . But he patiently endured those he was angry with -- people who were ready to be destroyed . He waited with patience so that he could make known the riches of his glory to the people he has chosen to receive his mercy . God has already prepared them to share his glory .
We are those people , the ones God chose not only from the
Jews
NORP
but also from those who are not
Jews
NORP
. As the
Scriptures
ORG
say in the book of
Hosea
PERSON
, " The people who are not mine -- I will say they are my people . And the people I did not love -- I will say they are the people I love . " And , " Where God said in the past , ' You are not my people ' -- there they will be called children of the living God . " And
Isaiah
PERSON
cries out about
Israel
GPE
: " There are so many people of
Israel
GPE
, they are like the grains of sand by the sea . But only a few of them will be saved . Yes , the Lord will quickly finish judging the people on the earth . " It is just as
Isaiah
PERSON
said : "
The Lord All - Powerful
WORK_OF_ART
allowed some of our people to live . If he had not done that , we would now be like
Sodom
ORG
, and we would be like
Gomorrah
PERSON
. " So what does all this mean ?
It means that people who are not
Jews
NORP
were made right with God because of their faith , even though they were not trying to make themselves right . And the people of
Israel
GPE
, who tried to make themselves right with God by following the law , did not succeed . They failed because they tried to make themselves right by the things they did . They did not trust in God to make them right . They fell over the stone that makes people fall . The
Scriptures
ORG
talk about that stone : " Look , I put in Zion a stone that will make people stumble . It is a rock that will make people fall . But anyone who trusts in him will never be disappointed . " In
Jerusalem
GPE
Saul was still trying to scare the followers of the Lord , even saying he would kill them .
He went to the high priest and asked him to write letters to the synagogues in the city of
Damascus
GPE
.
Saul
PERSON
wanted the high priest to give him the authority to find people in
Damascus
GPE
who were followers of the Way . If he found any believers there , men or women , he would arrest them and bring them back to
Jerusalem
GPE
. So
Saul
PERSON
went to
Damascus
GPE
. When he came near the city , a very bright light from heaven suddenly shined around him . He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him , "
Saul
PERSON
,
Saul
PERSON
! Why are you persecuting me ? "
Saul
PERSON
said , " Who are you , Lord ? " The voice answered , " I am
Jesus
PERSON
, the one you are persecuting . Get up now and go into the city .
Someone there will tell you what you must do . " The men traveling with
Saul
PERSON
just stood there , unable to speak . They heard the voice , but they saw no one . Saul got up from the ground and opened his eyes , but he could not see . So the men with him held his hand and led him into
Damascus
GPE
. For
three days
DATE
Saul
PERSON
could not see ; he did not eat or drink . There was a follower of
Jesus
PERSON
in
Damascus
GPE
named
Ananias
PERSON
. In a vision the Lord said to him , " Ananias ! " Ananias answered , " Here I am , Lord . " The Lord said to him , " Get up and go to the street called
Straight Street
FAC
.
Find the house of
Judas
PERSON
and ask for a man named
Saul
PERSON
from the city of
Tarsus
GPE
. He is there now , praying . He has seen a vision in which a man named
Ananias
PERSON
came and laid his hands on him so that he could see again . " But Ananias answered , " Lord , many people have told me about this man . They told me about the many bad things he did to your holy people in
Jerusalem
GPE
. Now he has come here to
Damascus
GPE
. The leading priests have given him the power to arrest all people who trust in you . " But the Lord
Jesus
PERSON
said to Ananias , " Go ! I have chosen
Saul
PERSON
for an important work . He must tell about me to other nations and their rulers and to the people of
Israel
GPE
.
I will show him all that he must suffer for me . " So Ananias left and went to the house of
Judas
PERSON
. He laid his hands on
Saul
PERSON
and said , "
Saul
PERSON
, my brother , the Lord
Jesus
PERSON
sent me . He is the one you saw on the road when you came here . He sent me so that you can see again and also be filled with the Holy Spirit . " Immediately , something that looked like fish scales fell off
Saul
PERSON
's eyes . He was able to see ! Then he got up and was baptized . After he ate , he began to feel strong again . Saul stayed with the followers of
Jesus
PERSON
in
Damascus
GPE
for
a few days
DATE
.
Soon he began to go to the synagogues and tell people about
Jesus
PERSON
. He told the people , "
Jesus
PERSON
is the Son of God ! " All the people who heard
Saul
PERSON
were amazed . They said , " This is the same man who was in
Jerusalem
GPE
trying to destroy the people who trust in
Jesus
PERSON
! And that 's why he has come here -- to arrest the followers of
Jesus
PERSON
and take them back to the leading priests . " But
Saul
PERSON
became more and more powerful in proving that
Jesus
PERSON
is the Christ . His proofs were so strong that the
Jews
NORP
who lived in
Damascus
GPE
could not argue with him . After
many days
DATE
, some
Jews
NORP
made plans to kill
Saul
PERSON
. They were watching the city gates day and night .
They wanted to kill
Saul
PERSON
, but he learned about their plan .
One night
TIME
some followers that
Saul
PERSON
had taught helped him leave the city . They put him in a basket and lowered it down through a hole in the city wall . Then
Saul
PERSON
went to
Jerusalem
GPE
. He tried to join the group of followers , but they were all afraid of him . They did not believe that he was really a follower of
Jesus
PERSON
. But
Barnabas
ORG
accepted
Saul
PERSON
and took him to the apostles . He told them how
Saul
PERSON
had seen the Lord on the road and how the Lord had spoken to
Saul
PERSON
. Then he told them how boldly
Saul
PERSON
had spoken for the Lord in
Damascus
GPE
. And so
Saul
PERSON
stayed with the followers and went all around
Jerusalem
GPE
speaking boldly for the Lord .
He often had arguments with the
Greek
NORP
- speaking
Jews
NORP
, who began making plans to kill him . When the believers learned about this , they took
Saul to Caesarea
PERSON
, and from there they sent him to the city of
Tarsus
GPE
. The church in
Judea
GPE
,
Galilee
PERSON
, and
Samaria
PERSON
had a time of peace . With the help of the Holy Spirit , the groups of believers became stronger and showed their respect for the Lord by the way they lived . So the church everywhere grew in numbers .
Peter
PERSON
was traveling through all the areas around
Jerusalem
GPE
, and he stopped to visit the believers who lived in
Lydda
NORP
. There he met a man named
Aeneas
PERSON
, who was paralyzed and had not been able to get out of bed for
the past eight years
DATE
.
Peter
PERSON
said to him , "
Aeneas
PERSON
,
Jesus Christ
PERSON
heals you . Get up and make your bed ! " He stood up immediately .
All the people living in
Lydda
NORP
and on the plain of
Sharon
PERSON
saw him , and they decided to follow the Lord . In the city of
Joppa
GPE
there was a follower of
Jesus
PERSON
named
Tabitha
PERSON
. Her
Greek
NORP
name ,
Dorcas
PERSON
, means " a deer . " She was always doing good things for people and giving money to those in need . While
Peter
PERSON
was in
Lydda
GPE
,
Tabitha
PERSON
became sick and died . They washed her body and put it in an upstairs room . The followers in
Joppa
GPE
heard that
Peter
PERSON
was in
Lydda
NORP
, which was not far away . So they sent
two
CARDINAL
men , who begged him , "
Hurry
PERSON
, please come quickly ! "
Peter
PERSON
got ready and went with them . When he arrived , they took him to the upstairs room .
All the widows stood around him . They were crying and showing him the coats and other clothes that
Tabitha
PERSON
had made during her time with them .
Peter
PERSON
sent all the people out of the room . He knelt down and prayed . Then he turned to
Tabitha
GPE
's body and said , "
Tabitha
PERSON
, stand up ! " She opened her eyes . When she saw
Peter
PERSON
, she sat up . He gave her his hand and helped her stand up . Then he called the believers and the widows into the room . He showed them
Tabitha
PERSON
; she was alive !
People everywhere in
Joppa
GPE
learned about this , and many believed in the Lord .
Peter
PERSON
stayed in
Joppa
GPE
for
many days
DATE
at the home of a man named
Simon
PERSON
, who was a leatherworker . While
Apollos
PERSON
was in the city of
Corinth
PERSON
,
Paul
PERSON
was visiting some places on his way to
Ephesus
PRODUCT
. In Ephesus he found some other followers of the Lord . He asked them , " Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed ? " These followers said to him , " We have never even heard of a Holy Spirit ! "
Paul
PERSON
asked them , " So what kind of baptism did you have ? " They said , " It was the baptism that
John
PERSON
taught . "
Paul
PERSON
said , "
John
PERSON
told people to be baptized to show they wanted to change their lives .
He told people to believe in the one who would come after him , and that one is
Jesus
PERSON
. " When these followers heard this , they were baptized in the name of the Lord
Jesus
PERSON
. Then
Paul
PERSON
laid his hands on them , and the Holy Spirit came on them . They began speaking different languages and prophesying . There were
about twelve
CARDINAL
men in this group .
Paul
PERSON
went into the synagogue and spoke very boldly . He continued doing this for
three months
DATE
. He talked with the
Jews
NORP
, trying to persuade them to accept what he was telling them about God 's kingdom . But some of them became stubborn and refused to believe . In front of everyone , they said bad things about the Way .
So
Paul
PERSON
left these
Jews
NORP
and took the Lord 's followers with him . He went to a place where a man named
Tyrannus
PERSON
had a school . There
Paul
PERSON
talked with people every day . He did this for
two years
DATE
. Because of this work , everyone in
Asia
LOC
,
Jews
NORP
and
Greeks
PERSON
, heard the word of the Lord . God used
Paul
PERSON
to do some very special miracles . Some people carried away handkerchiefs and clothes that
Paul
PERSON
had used and put them on those who were sick . The sick people were healed , and evil spirits left them . Some
Jews
NORP
also were traveling around forcing evil spirits out of people . The
seven
CARDINAL
sons of
Sceva
ORG
, one of the leading priests , were doing this .
These
Jews
NORP
tried to use the name of the Lord
Jesus
PERSON
to make the evil spirits go out of people . They all said , " By the same
Jesus
PERSON
that
Paul
PERSON
talks about , I order you to come out ! " But
one
CARDINAL
time an evil spirit said to these
Jews
NORP
, " I know
Jesus
PERSON
, and I know about
Paul
PERSON
, but who are you ? " Then the man who had the evil spirit inside him jumped on these
Jews
NORP
. He was much stronger than all of them . He beat them up and tore their clothes off . They all ran away from that house . All the people in
Ephesus
PRODUCT
,
Jews
NORP
and
Greeks
PERSON
, learned about this . They were all filled with fear and gave great honor to the Lord
Jesus
PERSON
. Many of the believers began to confess , telling about all the evil things they had done .
Some of them had used magic . These believers brought their magic books and burned them before everyone . These books were worth
about 50
CARDINAL
,
000
CARDINAL
silver coins . This is how the word of the Lord was spreading in a powerful way , causing more and more people to believe . After this ,
Paul
PERSON
made plans to go to
Jerusalem
GPE
. He planned to go through the regions of
Macedonia
GPE
and
Achaia
GPE
, and then go to
Jerusalem
GPE
. He thought , " After I visit
Jerusalem
GPE
, I must also visit
Rome
GPE
. "
Timothy
PERSON
and Erastus were
two
CARDINAL
of his helpers .
Paul
PERSON
sent them ahead to
Macedonia
GPE
. But he stayed in
Asia
LOC
for a while .
But during that time there was some trouble in
Ephesus
PRODUCT
about the Way . This is how it all happened : There was a man named
Demetrius
PERSON
. He worked with silver . He made little silver models that looked like the temple of the goddess
Artemis
ORG
. The men who did this work made a lot of money . Demetrius had a meeting with these men and some others who did the same kind of work . He told them , " Men , you know that we make a lot of money from our business . But look at what this man
Paul
PERSON
is doing . Listen to what he is saying . He has convinced many people in
Ephesus
PRODUCT
and all over
Asia
LOC
to change their religion .
He says the gods that people make by hand are not real . I 'm afraid this is going to turn people against our business . But there is also another problem . People will begin to think that the temple of the great goddess
Artemis
ORG
is not important . Her greatness will be destroyed . And
Artemis
ORG
is the goddess that everyone in
Asia
LOC
and the whole world worships . " When the men heard this , they became very angry . They shouted , " Great is
Artemis
ORG
, the goddess of
Ephesus
ORG
! " The whole city was thrown into confusion .
The people grabbed
Gaius
PERSON
and Aristarchus , men from
Macedonia
GPE
who were traveling with
Paul
PERSON
, and rushed all together into the stadium .
Paul
PERSON
wanted to go in and talk to the people , but the Lord 's followers did not let him go . Also , some leaders of the country who were friends of
Paul
PERSON
sent him a message telling him not to go into the stadium . Some people were shouting
one
CARDINAL
thing and others were shouting something else . The meeting was very confused . Most of the people did not know why they had come there . Some
Jews
NORP
made a man named
Alexander
PERSON
stand before the crowd , and they told him what to say .
Alexander
PERSON
waved his hand , trying to explain things to the people . But when the people saw that
Alexander
PERSON
was a
Jew
NORP
, they all began shouting the same thing . For
two hours
TIME
they continued shouting , " Great is Artemis of Ephesus !
Great is Artemis of Ephesus ! Great is
Artemis
NORP
. . . ! " Then the city clerk persuaded the people to be quiet . He said , " Men of Ephesus , everyone knows that
Ephesus
PRODUCT
is the city that keeps the temple of the great goddess
Artemis
NORP
. Everyone knows that we also keep her holy rock . No one can deny this , so you should be quiet . You must stop and think before you do anything else . " You brought these men here , but they have not said anything bad against our goddess . They have not stolen anything from her temple . We have courts of law and there are judges .
Do Demetrius and those men who work with him have a charge against anyone ? They should go to the courts . Let them argue with each other there . " Is there something else you want to talk about ? Then come to the regular town meeting of the people . It can be decided there . I say this because someone might see this trouble
today
DATE
and say we are rioting . We could not explain all this trouble , because there is no real reason for this meeting . " After the city clerk said this , he told the people to go home .
While
Jesus
PERSON
was walking , he saw a man who had been blind since the time he was born .
Jesus
PERSON
' followers asked him , " Teacher , why was this man born blind ? Whose sin made it happen ? Was it his own sin or that of his parents ? "
Jesus
PERSON
answered , " It was not any sin of this man or his parents that caused him to be blind . He was born blind so that he could be used to show what great things God can do . While it is daytime , we must continue doing the work of the one who sent me .
The night
TIME
is coming , and no one can work at
night
TIME
. While I am in the world , I am the light of the world . " After
Jesus
PERSON
said this , he spit on the dirt , made some mud and put it on the man 's eyes .
Jesus
PERSON
told him , " Go and wash in
Siloam
GPE
pool . " -LRB- Siloam means " Sent . " -RRB- So the man went to the pool , washed and came back . He was now able to see . His neighbors and some others who had seen him begging said , " Look ! Is this the same man who always sits and begs ? " Some people said , " Yes ! He is the one . " But others said , " No , he ca n't be the same man . He only looks like him . "
So the man himself said , " I am that same man . " They asked , " What happened ? How did you get your sight ? " He answered , " The man they call
Jesus
PERSON
made some mud and put it on my eyes . Then he told me to go to
Siloam
PERSON
and wash . So I went there and washed . And then I could see . " They asked him , " Where is this man ? " He answered , " I do n't know . " Then the people brought the man to the Pharisees .
The day
Jesus
PERSON
had made mud and healed the man 's eyes was a
Sabbath
PERSON
day . So the
Pharisees
PERSON
asked the man , " How did you get your sight ? " He answered , " He put mud on my eyes . I washed , and now I can see . " Some of the Pharisees said , " That man does not obey the law about the
Sabbath
PERSON
day . So he is not from God . " Others said , " But someone who is a sinner can not do these miraculous signs . " So they could not agree with each other . They asked the man again , " Since it was your eyes he healed , what do you say about him ? " He answered , " He is a prophet . "
The
Jewish
NORP
leaders still did not believe that this really happened to the man -- that he was blind and was now healed . But later they sent for his parents . They asked them , " Is this your son ? You say he was born blind . So how can he see ? " His parents answered , " We know that this man is our son . And we know that he was born blind . But we do n't know why he can see now . We do n't know who healed his eyes . Ask him .
He is old enough to answer for himself . " They said this because they were afraid of the
Jewish
NORP
leaders . The leaders had already decided that they would punish anyone who said
Jesus
PERSON
was the Christ . They would stop them from coming to the synagogue . That is why his parents said , " He is old enough . Ask him . " So the
Jewish
NORP
leaders called the man who had been blind . They told him to come in again . They said , " You should honor God by telling the truth . We know that this man is a sinner . "
The man answered , " I do n't know if he is a sinner . But I do know this : I was blind , and now I can see . " They asked , " What did he do to you ? How did he heal your eyes ? " He answered , " I have already told you that . But you would not listen to me . Why do you want to hear it again ? Do you want to be his followers too ? " At this they shouted insults at him and said , " You are his follower , not us ! We are followers of
Moses
GPE
.
We know that God spoke to Moses . But we do n't even know where this man comes from ! " The man answered , " This is really strange ! You do n't know where he comes from , but he healed my eyes . We all know that God does not listen to sinners , but he will listen to anyone who worships and obeys him . This is the
first
ORDINAL
time we have ever heard of anyone healing the eyes of someone born blind . This man must be from God . If he were not from God , he could not do anything like this . " The
Jewish
NORP
leaders answered , " You were born full of sin ! Are you trying to teach us ? "
And they told the man to get out of the synagogue and to stay out . When
Jesus
PERSON
heard that they had forced the man to leave , he found him and asked him , " Do you believe in the Son of Man ? " The man said , " Tell me who he is , sir , so I can believe in him . "
Jesus
PERSON
said to him , " You have already seen him .
The Son of Man
WORK_OF_ART
is the one talking with you now . " The man answered , " Yes , I believe , Lord ! " Then he bowed and worshiped
Jesus
PERSON
.
Jesus
PERSON
said , " I came into this world so that the world could be judged . I came so that people who are blind could see . And I came so that people who think they see would become blind . "
Some of the Pharisees were near
Jesus
PERSON
. They heard him say this . They asked , " What ? Are you saying that we are blind too ? "
Jesus
PERSON
said , " If you were really blind , you would not be guilty of sin . But you say that you see , so you are still guilty . " Then Pilate ordered that
Jesus
PERSON
be taken away and whipped . The soldiers made a crown from thorny branches and put it on his head . Then they put a purple robe around him .
They kept coming up to him and saying , " Hail to the king of the
Jews
NORP
! " And they hit him in the face . Again Pilate came out and said to the
Jewish
NORP
leaders , " Look ! I am bringing
Jesus
PERSON
out to you . I want you to know that I find nothing I can charge him with . " Then
Jesus
PERSON
came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe . Pilate said to the
Jews
NORP
, " Here is the man ! " When the leading priests and the
Jewish
NORP
guards saw
Jesus
PERSON
they shouted , " Kill him on a cross !
Kill
PERSON
him on a cross ! " But Pilate answered , " You take him and nail him to a cross yourselves .
I find nothing I can charge him with . " The
Jewish
NORP
leaders answered , " We have a law that says he must die , because he said he is the Son of God . " When Pilate heard this , he was more afraid . So he went back inside the palace and asked
Jesus
PERSON
, " Where are you from ? " But
Jesus
PERSON
did not answer him . Pilate said , " You refuse to speak to me ? Remember , I have the power to make you free or to kill you on a cross . "
Jesus
PERSON
answered , " The only power you have over me is the power given to you by God . So the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin . " After this , Pilate tried to let
Jesus
PERSON
go free .
But the
Jewish
NORP
leaders shouted , " Anyone who makes himself a king is against
Caesar
ORG
. So if you let this man go free , that means you are not
Caesar
ORG
's friend . " When Pilate heard this , he brought
Jesus
PERSON
out to the place called
" The Stone Pavement
WORK_OF_ART
. " -LRB- In
Aramaic
GPE
the name is
Gabbatha
NORP
. -RRB- Pilate sat down on the judge 's seat there . It was now
almost noon
TIME
on Preparation day of Passover week . Pilate said to the
Jews
NORP
, " Here is your king ! " They shouted , " Take him away ! Take him away ! Kill him on a cross ! "
Pilate asked them , " Do you want me to kill your king on a cross ? " The leading priests answered , " The only king we have is
Caesar
ORG
! " So Pilate handed
Jesus
ORG
over to them to be killed on a cross . The soldiers took
Jesus
PERSON
. He carried his own cross to a place called
" The Place of the Skull
WORK_OF_ART
. " -LRB- In
Aramaic
GPE
the name of this place is "
Golgotha
PERSON
. " -RRB- There they nailed
Jesus
PERSON
to the cross . They also nailed
two
CARDINAL
other men to crosses . They put them on each side of
Jesus
PERSON
with him in the middle . Pilate told them to write a sign and put it on the cross .
The sign said , " jesus of
nazareth
PERSON
, the king of the
jews
NORP
. " The sign was written in
Aramaic
GPE
, in
Latin
LANGUAGE
, and in
Greek
NORP
. Many of the
Jews
NORP
read this sign , because the place where
Jesus
PERSON
was nailed to the cross was near the city . The leading
Jewish
NORP
priests said to Pilate , " Do n't write , '
The King of the Jews
WORK_OF_ART
. ' But write , ' This man said , I am
the King of the
PERSON
Jews
NORP
. ' " Pilate answered , " I will not change what I have written . " After the soldiers nailed
Jesus
PERSON
to the cross , they took his clothes and divided them into
four
CARDINAL
parts . Each soldier got
one
CARDINAL
part . They also took his tunic . It was all one piece of cloth woven from top to bottom .
So the soldiers said to each other , " We should not tear this into parts . Let 's throw lots to see who will get it . " This happened to make clear the full meaning of what the
Scriptures
ORG
say : " They divided my clothes among them , and they threw lots for what I was wearing . " So the soldiers did this .
Jesus
PERSON
' mother stood near his cross . Her sister was also standing there with
Mary
PERSON
the wife of
Clopas
ORG
, and
Mary Magdalene
PERSON
.
Jesus
PERSON
saw his mother . He also saw the follower he loved very much standing there . He said to his mother , " Dear woman , here is your son . "
Then he said to the follower , " Here is your mother . " So after that , this follower took
Jesus
PERSON
' mother to live in his home . Later ,
Jesus
PERSON
knew that everything had been done . To make the
Scriptures
ORG
come true he said , " I am thirsty . " There was a jar full of sour wine there , so the soldiers soaked a sponge in it . They put the sponge on a branch of a hyssop plant and lifted it to
Jesus
PERSON
' mouth . When he tasted the wine , he said , " It is finished . " Then he bowed his head and died .
This day
DATE
was Preparation day .
The next day
DATE
was a special
Sabbath
PERSON
day .
The
Jewish
NORP
leaders did not want the bodies to stay on the cross on the
Sabbath
PERSON
day . So they asked Pilate to order that the legs of the men be broken . And they asked that the bodies be taken down from the crosses . So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the
two
CARDINAL
men on the crosses beside
Jesus
PERSON
. But when the soldiers came close to
Jesus
PERSON
, they saw that he was already dead . So they did not break his legs . But
one
CARDINAL
of the soldiers stuck his spear into
Jesus
PERSON
' side . Immediately blood and water came out . -LRB- The one who saw this happen has told about it .
He told about it so that you also can believe . The things he says are true . He knows that he tells the truth . -RRB- These things happened to give full meaning to the
Scriptures
ORG
that said , " None of his bones will be broken " and " People will look at the one they stabbed . " Later , a man named
Joseph
PERSON
from
Arimathea
PERSON
asked Pilate for the body of
Jesus
PERSON
. -LRB-
Joseph
PERSON
was a follower of
Jesus
PERSON
, but he did not tell anyone , because he was afraid of the
Jewish
NORP
leaders . -RRB- Pilate said
Joseph
PERSON
could take
Jesus
PERSON
' body , so he came and took it away .
Nicodemus
GPE
went with
Joseph
PERSON
. He was the man who had come to
Jesus
PERSON
before and talked to him at
night
TIME
.
He brought
about 100 pounds
QUANTITY
of spices -- a mixture of myrrh and aloes . These
two
CARDINAL
men took
Jesus
PERSON
' body and wrapped it in pieces of linen cloth with the spices . -LRB- This is how the
Jews
NORP
bury people .
-RRB-
PERSON
In the place where
Jesus
PERSON
was killed on the cross , there was a garden . In the garden there was a new tomb . No one had ever been buried there before . The men put
Jesus
PERSON
in that tomb because it was near , and the
Jews
NORP
were preparing to start their
Sabbath
PERSON
day . I am a free man . I am an apostle .
I have seen
Jesus
PERSON
our Lord . You people are an example of my work in the Lord . Others may not accept me as an apostle , but surely you do . You are proof that I am an apostle in the Lord . Some people want to judge me . So this is the answer I give them : We have the right to eat and drink , do n't we ? We have the right to bring a believing wife with us when we travel , do n't we ? The other apostles and the Lord 's brothers and
Peter
PERSON
all do this . And are
Barnabas
ORG
and I the only ones who must work to earn our living ? No soldier ever serves in the army and pays his own salary .
No one ever plants a vineyard without eating some of the grapes himself . No one takes care of a flock of sheep without drinking some of the milk himself . These are n't just my own thoughts . God 's law says the same thing . Yes , it is written in
the Law of Moses
ORG
: " When a work animal is being used to separate grain , do n't keep it from eating the grain . " When
God
PERSON
said this , was he thinking only about work animals ? No . He was really talking about us . Yes , that was written for us .
The one who plows and the one who separates the grain should both expect to get some of the grain for their work . We planted spiritual seed among you , so we should be able to harvest from you some things for this life . Surely that is not asking too much . Others have this right to get things from you . So surely we have this right too . But we do n't use this right . No , we endure everything ourselves so that we will not stop anyone from obeying
the Good News of Christ
ORG
. Surely you know that those who work at the Temple get their food from the Temple . And those who serve at the altar get part of what is offered at the altar . It is the same with those who have the work of telling
the Good News
ORG
.
The Lord has commanded that those who tell the
Good News
ORG
should get their living from this work . But I have not used any of these rights , and I am not trying to get anything from you . That is not my purpose for writing this . I would rather die than to have someone take away what for me is a great source of pride . It 's not my work of telling
the Good News
ORG
that gives me any reason to boast . That is my duty -- something I must do . If I do n't tell people
the Good News
ORG
, I am in real trouble . If I did it because it was my own choice , I would deserve to be paid . But I have no choice .
I must tell
the Good News
ORG
. So I am only doing the duty that was given to me . So what do I get for doing it ? My reward is that when I tell people
the Good News I
ORG
can offer it to them for free and not use the rights that come with doing this work . I am free . I belong to no other person , but I make myself a slave to everyone . I do this to help save as many people as I can . To the
Jews
NORP
I became like a Jew so that I could help save
Jews
NORP
. I myself am not ruled by the law , but to those who are ruled by the law I became like someone who is ruled by the law . I did this to help save those who are ruled by the law .
To those who are without the law I became like someone who is without the law . I did this to help save those who are without the law . -LRB- But really , I am not without God 's law -- I am ruled by the law of Christ . -RRB- To those who are weak , I became weak so that I could help save them . I have become all things to all people . I did this so that I could save people in any way possible . I do all this to make the
Good News
ORG
known . I do it so that I can share in the blessings of
the Good News
ORG
. You know that in a race all the runners run , but
only one
CARDINAL
runner gets the prize . So run like that .
Run to win ! All who compete in the games use strict training . They do this so that they can win a prize -- one that does n't last . But our prize is one that will last forever . So I run like someone who has a goal . I fight like a boxer who is hitting something , not just the air . It is my own body I fight to make it do what I want . I do this so that I wo n't miss getting the prize myself after telling others about it . Then
Jesus
PERSON
said , " Believe me when I say that some of you people standing here will see God 's kingdom come with power before you die . "
Six days later
DATE
,
Jesus
PERSON
took
Peter
PERSON
,
James
PERSON
, and
John
PERSON
and went up on a high mountain . They were all alone there . While these followers watched him ,
Jesus
PERSON
was changed . His clothes became shining white -- whiter than anyone on earth could make them . Then
two
CARDINAL
men were there talking with
Jesus
PERSON
. They were
Elijah and Moses
ORG
.
Peter
PERSON
said to
Jesus
PERSON
, " Teacher , it is good that we are here . We will put
three
CARDINAL
tents here -- one for you , one for
Moses
PERSON
, and one for
Elijah
ORG
. "
Peter
PERSON
did not know what to say , because he and the other
two
CARDINAL
followers were so afraid . Then a cloud came and covered them .
A voice came from the cloud and said , " This is my Son , the one I love . Obey him ! " The followers looked , but they saw only
Jesus
PERSON
there alone with them . As
Jesus
PERSON
and the followers were walking back down the mountain , he gave them these instructions : " Do n't tell anyone about what you saw on the mountain . Wait until after
the Son of Man
WORK_OF_ART
rises from death . Then you can tell people what you saw . " So the followers waited to say anything about what they saw . But they discussed among themselves what
Jesus
PERSON
meant about rising from death . They asked him , " Why do the teachers of the law say that
Elijah
ORG
must come
first
ORDINAL
? "
Jesus
PERSON
answered , " They are right to say that
Elijah
ORG
must come
first
ORDINAL
.
Elijah makes all things the way they should be . But why do the
Scriptures
ORG
say that the Son of Man will suffer much and that people will think he is worth nothing ? I tell you that
Elijah
ORG
has already come . And people did to him all the bad things they wanted to do . The
Scriptures
ORG
said this would happen to him . " Then
Jesus
PERSON
,
Peter
PERSON
,
James
PERSON
, and
John
PERSON
went to the other followers . They saw many people around them . The teachers of the law were arguing with the followers . When the people saw
Jesus
PERSON
, they were very surprised and ran to welcome him .
Jesus
PERSON
asked , " What are you arguing about with the teachers of the law ? " A man answered , " Teacher , I brought my son to you . He is controlled by an evil spirit that keeps him from talking . The spirit attacks him and throws him on the ground . He foams at the mouth , grinds his teeth , and becomes very stiff . I asked your followers to force the evil spirit out , but they could not . "
Jesus
PERSON
answered , " You people
today
DATE
do n't believe ! How long must I stay with you ? How long must I be patient with you ? Bring the boy to me ! "
So the followers brought the boy to
Jesus
PERSON
. When the evil spirit saw
Jesus
PERSON
, it attacked the boy . The boy fell down and rolled on the ground . He was foaming at the mouth .
Jesus
PERSON
asked the boy 's father , " How long has this been happening to him ? " The father answered , " Since he was very young . The spirit often throws him into a fire or into water to kill him . If you can do anything , please have pity on us and help us . "
Jesus
PERSON
said to the father , " Why did you say ' if you can ' ? All things are possible for the one who believes . "
Immediately the father shouted , " I do believe . Help me to believe more ! "
Jesus
PERSON
saw that all the people were running there to see what was happening . So he spoke to the evil spirit . He said , " You evil spirit that makes this boy deaf and stops him from talking -- I command you to come out of him and never enter him again ! " The evil spirit screamed . It caused the boy to fall on the ground again , and then it came out . The boy looked as if he was dead . Many people said , " He is dead ! " But
Jesus
PERSON
took hold of his hand and helped him stand up .
Then
Jesus
PERSON
went into the house . His followers were alone with him there . They said , " Why were n't we able to force that evil spirit out ? "
Jesus
PERSON
answered , " That kind of spirit can be forced out only with prayer . " Then
Jesus
PERSON
and his followers left there and went through
Galilee
GPE
.
Jesus
PERSON
did not want the people to know where they were . He wanted to teach his followers alone . He said to them , "
The Son of Man
WORK_OF_ART
will be handed over to the control of other men , who will kill him . After
three days
DATE
, he will rise from death . " But the followers did not understand what he meant , and they were afraid to ask him .
Jesus
PERSON
and his followers went to
Capernaum
ORG
. They went into a house , and
Jesus
PERSON
said to them , " I heard you arguing on the way here
today
DATE
. What were you arguing about ? " But the followers did not answer , because their argument on the road was about which
one
CARDINAL
of them was the greatest .
Jesus
PERSON
sat down and called the
twelve
CARDINAL
apostles to him . He said , " Whoever wants to be the most important must make others more important than themselves . They must serve everyone else . " Then
Jesus
PERSON
took a small child and stood the child in front of the followers . He held the child in his arms and said , " Whoever accepts children like these in my name is accepting me .
And anyone who accepts me is also accepting the one who sent me . " Then
John
PERSON
said , " Teacher , we saw a man using your name to force demons out of someone . He is not one of us . So we told him to stop , because he does not belong to our group . "
Jesus
PERSON
said , " Do n't stop him . Whoever uses my name to do powerful things will not soon say bad things about me . Whoever is not against us is with us . I can assure you that anyone who helps you by giving you a drink of water because you belong to the
Christ
ORG
will definitely get a reward . " If
one
CARDINAL
of these little children believes in me , and someone causes that child to sin , it will be very bad for that person . It would be better for them to have a millstone tied around their neck and be drowned in the sea .
If your hand makes you sin , cut it off . It is better for you to lose part of your body and have eternal life than to have
two
CARDINAL
hands and go to hell . There the fire never stops . If your foot makes you sin , cut it off . It is better for you to lose part of your body and have eternal life than to have
two feet
QUANTITY
and be thrown into hell . If your eye makes you sin , take it out . It is better for you to have only
one
CARDINAL
eye and enter God 's kingdom than to have
two
CARDINAL
eyes and be thrown into hell . The worms that eat the people in hell never die . The fire there is never stopped . " Everyone will be salted with fire .
" Salt is good . But if it loses its salty taste , you ca n't make it good again . So , do n't lose that good quality of salt you have . And live in peace with each other . " After
Jesus
PERSON
said all these things , he left
Galilee
PERSON
. He went into the area of
Judea
PERSON
on the other side of
the Jordan River
LOC
. Many people followed him .
Jesus
PERSON
healed the sick people there . Some Pharisees came to
Jesus
PERSON
.
They tried to make him say something wrong . They asked him , " Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for any reason he chooses ? "
Jesus
PERSON
answered , " Surely you have read this in the Scriptures : When God made the world , ' he made people male and female . ' And
God
PERSON
said , ' That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife . And the
two
CARDINAL
people will become one . ' So they are no longer
two
CARDINAL
, but one . God has joined them together , so no one should separate them . " The Pharisees asked , " Then why did Moses give a command allowing a man to divorce his wife by writing a certificate of divorce ? "
Jesus
PERSON
answered , " Moses allowed you to divorce your wives because you refused to accept God 's teaching . But divorce was not allowed in the beginning .
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife , except for the problem of sexual sin , and marries another woman is guilty of adultery . " The followers said to
Jesus
PERSON
, " If that is the only reason a man can divorce his wife , it is better not to marry . " He answered , " This statement is true for some , but not for everyone -- only for those who have been given this gift . There are different reasons why some men do n't marry . Some were born without the ability to produce children . Others were made that way later in life . And others have given up marriage because of God 's kingdom . This is for anyone who is able to accept it . " Then the people brought their little children to
Jesus
PERSON
so that he could lay his hands on them to bless them and pray for them . When the followers saw this , they told the people to stop bringing their children to him .
But
Jesus
PERSON
said , " Let the little children come to me . Do n't stop them , because God 's kingdom belongs to people who are like these children . " After
Jesus
PERSON
blessed the children , he left there . A man came to
Jesus
PERSON
and asked , " Teacher , what good thing must I do to have eternal life ? "
Jesus
PERSON
answered , " Why do you ask me about what is good ? Only God is good . But if you want to have eternal life , obey the law 's commands . " The man asked , " Which ones ? "
Jesus
PERSON
answered , " ' You must not murder anyone , you must not commit adultery , you must not steal , you must not tell lies about others , you must respect your father and mother , ' and ' love your neighbor the same as you love yourself . ' "
The young man said , " I have obeyed all these commands . What else do I need ? "
Jesus
PERSON
answered , " If you want to be perfect , then go and sell all that you own . Give the money to the poor , and you will have riches in heaven . Then come and follow me ! " But when the young man heard
Jesus
PERSON
tell him to give away his money , he was sad . He did n't want to do this , because he was very rich . So he left . Then
Jesus
PERSON
said to his followers , " The truth is , it will be very hard for a rich person to enter God 's kingdom . Yes , I tell you , it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter God 's kingdom . "
The followers were amazed to hear this . They asked , " Then who can be saved ? "
Jesus
PERSON
looked at them and said , " This is something that people can not do . But God can do anything . "
Peter
PERSON
said to him , " We left everything we had and followed you . So what will we have ? "
Jesus
PERSON
said to them , " When the time of the new world comes , the Son of Man will sit on his great and glorious throne . And I can promise that you who followed me will sit on
twelve
CARDINAL
thrones , and you will judge the
twelve
CARDINAL
tribes of
Israel
GPE
. Everyone who has left houses , brothers , sisters , father , mother , children , or farms to follow me will get much more than they left . And they will have eternal life .
Many people who are
first
ORDINAL
now will be last in the future . And many who are last now will be
first
ORDINAL
in the future .
Jesus
PERSON
got into a boat and went back across the lake to his own town . Some people brought to him a man who was paralyzed and was lying on a mat .
Jesus
PERSON
saw that these people had much faith . So he said to the paralyzed man , " Young man , you will be glad to hear this . Your sins are forgiven . " Some of the teachers of the law heard what
Jesus
PERSON
said . They said to themselves , " What an insult to God for this man to say that ! "
Jesus
PERSON
knew what they were thinking . So he said , " Why are you thinking such evil thoughts ?
The Son of Man
WORK_OF_ART
has power on earth to forgive sins . But how can I prove this to you ? Maybe you are thinking it was easy for me to say , ' Your sins are forgiven . ' There 's no proof that it really happened . But what if I say to the man , ' Stand up and walk ' ? Then you will be able to see that I really have this power . " So
Jesus
PERSON
said to the paralyzed man , " Stand up . Take your mat and go home . "
The man stood up and went home . The people saw this and they were amazed . They praised God for letting someone have such power . When
Jesus
PERSON
was leaving , he saw a man named
Matthew
PERSON
sitting at the place for collecting taxes .
Jesus
PERSON
said to him , " Follow me . " So he got up and followed
Jesus
PERSON
.
Jesus
PERSON
ate dinner at
Matthew
PERSON
's house . Many tax collectors and others with bad reputations came and ate with him and his followers . The Pharisees saw that
Jesus
PERSON
was eating with these people .
They asked his followers , " Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and other sinners ? "
Jesus
PERSON
heard them say this . So he said to them , " It is the sick people who need a doctor , not those who are healthy . You need to go and learn what this Scripture means : ' I do n't want animal sacrifices ; I want you to show kindness to people . ' I did not come to invite good people . I came to invite sinners . " Then the followers of
John
PERSON
came to
Jesus
PERSON
and said , " We and the
Pharisees
PERSON
fast often , but your followers do n't ever fast . Why ? "
Jesus
PERSON
answered , " At a wedding the friends of the bridegroom are not sad while he is with them . They can not fast then .
But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them . Then they will fast . " When someone sews a patch over a hole in an old coat , they never use a piece of cloth that has not already been shrunk . If they do , the patch will shrink and pull away from the coat . Then the hole will be worse . Also , people never pour new wine into old wineskins . They would break , the wine would spill out , and the wineskins would be ruined . People always put new wine into new wineskins , which wo n't break , and the wine stays good . " While
Jesus
PERSON
was still talking , a leader of the synagogue came to him . The leader bowed down before him and said , " My daughter has just died .
But if you will come and touch her with your hand , she will live again . " So
Jesus
PERSON
and his followers went with the man . On the way , there was a woman who had been bleeding for
twelve years
DATE
. She came close behind
Jesus
PERSON
and touched the bottom of his coat . She was thinking , " If I can touch his coat , I will be healed . "
Jesus
PERSON
turned and saw the woman . He said , " Be happy , dear woman . You are made well because you believed . " Then the woman was healed .
Jesus
PERSON
continued going with the
Jewish
NORP
leader and went into the leader 's house .
He saw people there who make music for funerals . And he saw a crowd of people crying loudly .
Jesus
PERSON
said , " Go away . The girl is not dead . She is only sleeping . " But the people laughed at him . After the people were put out of the house ,
Jesus
PERSON
went into the girl 's room . He held the girl 's hand , and the girl stood up . The news about this spread all around the area .
As
Jesus
PERSON
was going away from there ,
two
CARDINAL
blind men followed him . They said loudly , " Show kindness to us , Son of
David
PERSON
. "
Jesus
PERSON
went inside , and the blind men went with him . He asked them , " Do you believe that I am able to make you see again ? " They answered , " Yes , Lord , we believe . " Then
Jesus
PERSON
touched their eyes and said , " You believe that I can make you see again , so it will happen . " Then the men were able to see .
Jesus
PERSON
gave them a strong warning . He said , " Do n't tell anyone about this . " But they left and spread the news about
Jesus
PERSON
all around that area .
As these
two
CARDINAL
men were leaving , some people brought another man to
Jesus
PERSON
. This man could not talk because he had a demon inside him .
Jesus
PERSON
forced the demon out , and the man was able to talk . The people were amazed and said , " We have never seen anything like this in
Israel
GPE
. " But the
Pharisees
PERSON
said , " The ruler of demons is the one that gives him power to force demons out . "
Jesus
PERSON
traveled through all the towns and villages . He taught in their synagogues and told people the Good News about God 's kingdom . He healed all kinds of diseases and sicknesses .
Jesus
PERSON
saw the many people and felt sorry for them because they were worried and helpless -- like sheep without a shepherd to lead them .
Jesus
PERSON
said to his followers , " There is such a big harvest of people to bring in .
But there are only a few workers to help harvest them . God owns the harvest . Ask him to send more workers to help gather his harvest . " I really do n't need to write to you about this help for God 's people . I know that you want to help . I have been bragging about you to the people in
Macedonia
GPE
. I told them that you people in
Achaia
GPE
have been ready to give since
last year
DATE
. And your desire to give has made most of the people here ready to give also . But I am sending the brothers to you .
I do n't want our bragging about you in this to be for nothing . I want you to be ready just as I said you would be . If any of those from
Macedonia
GPE
come with me , and they find that you are not ready , we will be ashamed . We will be ashamed that we were so sure of you . And you will be ashamed too ! So I thought that I should ask these brothers to come there before we do . They will help in getting together the generous gift you promised . Then it will be ready when we come , and it will be seen as a blessing you are giving , not as something you were forced to do . Remember this : The one who plants few seeds will have a small harvest . But the one who plants a lot will have a big harvest .
Each
one
CARDINAL
of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give . You should not give if it makes you unhappy or if you feel forced to give . God loves those who are happy to give . And God can give you more blessings than you need , and you will always have plenty of everything . You will have enough to give to every good work . As the
Scriptures
ORG
say , " He gives generously to the poor ; his goodness will continue forever . " God is the one who gives seed to those who plant , and he gives bread for food . And God will give you spiritual seed and make that seed grow . He will produce a great harvest from your goodness . God will make you rich in every way so that you can always give freely .
And your giving through us will make people give thanks to God . The service you are offering helps God 's people with their needs , but that is not all it does . It is also bringing more and more thanks to God . This service is a proof of your faith , and people will praise God because of it . They will praise him because you are following the message about Christ -- the message you say you believe . They will praise God because you freely share with them and with all people . And when they pray , they will wish they could be with you . They will feel this way because of the great grace that God gave you . Thanks be to God for his gift that is too wonderful to describe .
So
Solomon
PERSON
finished building the Lord 's Temple and his own palace .
Solomon
PERSON
built everything that he wanted to build . Then the Lord appeared to
Solomon
PERSON
again , just as he did at
Gibeon
PERSON
. The Lord said to him , " I heard your prayer and what you asked me to do . You built this
Temple
PERSON
, and I have made it a holy place . So I will be honored there forever . I will watch over it and think of it always . You must serve me with a pure and honest heart , just as your father
David
PERSON
did . You must obey my laws and do everything that I commanded you . If you do , I will make sure that your family will always rule
Israel
GPE
, just as I promised your father
David
PERSON
when I told him that
Israel
GPE
would always be ruled by
one
CARDINAL
of his descendants .
" But if you or your children stop following me , and do n't obey the laws and commands that I have given you , and if you serve and worship other gods , I will force
Israel
GPE
to leave the land that I have given to them .
Israel
GPE
will be an example to other people . Other people will make jokes about
Israel
GPE
. I made the Temple holy . It is the place where people honor me . But I will tear it down . This Temple will be destroyed . Everyone who sees it will be amazed . They will ask , ' Why did the Lord do this terrible thing to this land and to this temple ? ' People will say , ' This happened because they left the Lord their God .
He brought their ancestors out of
Egypt
GPE
, but they decided to follow other gods . They began to worship and serve those gods . That is why the Lord caused all these bad things to happen to them . ' " It took
20 years
DATE
for King
Solomon
PERSON
to build the Lord 's Temple and the king 's palace . Hiram supplied
Solomon
PERSON
with all the cedar , pine and gold that he wanted , so
Solomon
PERSON
gave him
20
CARDINAL
cities in
Galilee
GPE
. So
Hiram
ORG
traveled from
Tyre
ORG
to see the cities that
Solomon
PERSON
had given him . But
Hiram
ORG
was not pleased when he saw them .
King Hiram
ORG
said , " What are these towns that you have given me , my brother ? "
King Hiram
ORG
named that land
the Land of Cabul
ORG
. And that area is still called
Cabul
GPE
today
DATE
.
Hiram
ORG
had sent King
Solomon
PERSON
about 9000 pounds
QUANTITY
of gold to use in building the Temple . King
Solomon
PERSON
forced slaves to work for him to build the Temple and his palace . Then he used these slaves to build many other things . He built the
Millo
ORG
and the city wall around
Jerusalem
GPE
. Then he rebuilt the cities of
Hazor , Megiddo
GPE
, and
Gezer
PERSON
. In the past the king of
Egypt
GPE
had fought against the city of
Gezer
PERSON
and burned it . He killed the
Canaanites
ORG
who lived there . When
Solomon
PERSON
married
Pharaoh
PERSON
's daughter ,
Pharaoh
PERSON
gave him that city as a wedding present .
Solomon
PERSON
rebuilt
Gezer
PERSON
and the city of
Lower Beth Horon
LOC
. He also built the cities of Baalath and Tamar in the Judean desert .
He also built cities where he could store grain , and he built places for his chariots and his horses . King
Solomon
PERSON
also built whatever he wanted in
Jerusalem
GPE
,
Lebanon
GPE
, and all the places he ruled . There were people left in the land who were not Israelites . There were Amorites ,
Hittites
GPE
, Perizzites ,
Hivites
GPE
, and
Jebusites
GPE
. The Israelites had not been able to destroy them , but
Solomon
PERSON
forced them to work for him as slaves . They are still slaves
today
DATE
.
Solomon
PERSON
did not force any Israelites to be his slaves . The Israelites were soldiers , government officials , officers , captains , and chariot commanders and drivers . There were
550
CARDINAL
supervisors over
Solomon
PERSON
's projects . They supervised the men who did the work .
Pharaoh
PERSON
's daughter moved from the City of David to the palace that
Solomon
PERSON
had built for her . Then he built the
Millo
FAC
.
Three
CARDINAL
times each year
Solomon
PERSON
offered burned sacrifices and fellowship offerings on the altar that he built for the Lord . King
Solomon
PERSON
also burned incense before the Lord and supplied what was needed for the Temple . King
Solomon
PERSON
also built ships at
Ezion Geber
EVENT
. This town is near Elath on the shore of
the Red Sea
LOC
, in the land of
Edom
GPE
.
King Hiram
ORG
had some skilled sailors who knew the sea well . He sent them to serve in
Solomon
PERSON
's
navy
ORG
and work with
Solomon
PERSON
's men .
Solomon
PERSON
's ships went to
Ophir
GPE
and brought back
about 16 tons
QUANTITY
of gold for him .
King
Ahab
PERSON
told
Jezebel
PERSON
everything that
Elijah
ORG
did and how
Elijah
ORG
had killed all the prophets of
Baal
GPE
with a sword . So Jezebel sent a messenger to
Elijah
ORG
and said , " I swear that by this time
tomorrow
DATE
, you will be just as dead as those prophets . If I do n't succeed , may the gods do the same or worse to me . " When Elijah heard this , he was afraid . So he ran away to save his life . He took his servant with him , and they went to
Beersheba
PERSON
in
Judah
GPE
. Then
Elijah
ORG
left his servant in
Beersheba
PERSON
and walked for
a whole day
DATE
into the desert . Then he sat down under a
bush
PERSON
and asked to die . He said , " I have had enough , Lord ! Take my life .
I am no better than my ancestors . " Then
Elijah
ORG
lay down under the
bush
PERSON
and went to sleep . An angel came to him and touched him . The angel said , " Get up and eat ! " Elijah looked around , and by his head there was a cake that had been baked over coals and a jar of water . He ate and drank and then went back to sleep . Later the Lord 's angel came to him again , touched him , and said , " Get up and eat ! If you do n't , you will not be strong enough to make the long trip . " So
Elijah
ORG
got up . He ate and drank and felt strong .
Then
Elijah
ORG
walked for
40 days
DATE
and
nights
TIME
to
Mount Horeb
GPE
, the mountain of God . There Elijah went into a cave and spent
the night
TIME
. Then the Lord said to him , " Elijah , why are you here ? " Elijah answered , " Lord God All-Powerful , I have always served you the best I can , but the Israelites have broken their agreement with you . They destroyed your altars and killed your prophets . I am the only prophet left alive , and now they are trying to kill me ! " Then the Lord said to
Elijah
ORG
, " Go , stand in front of me on the mountain . I will pass by you . " Then a very strong wind blew . The wind caused the mountains to break apart .
It broke large rocks in front of the Lord . But that wind was not the Lord . After that wind , there was an earthquake . But that earthquake was not the Lord . After the earthquake , there was a fire . But that fire was not the Lord . After the fire , there was a quiet , gentle voice . When Elijah heard the voice , he used his coat to cover his face and went to the entrance to the cave and stood there . Then a voice said to him , " Elijah , why are you here ? " Elijah said , " Lord God All-Powerful , I have always served you the best that I can , but the Israelites broke their agreement with you .
They destroyed your altars and killed your prophets . I am the only prophet left alive , and now they are trying to kill me . " The Lord said , " Go back . Take the road that leads to the desert around
Damascus
GPE
. Go into
Damascus
GPE
and anoint
Hazael
PERSON
as king over
Aram
GPE
. Then anoint
Jehu
PERSON
son of
Nimshi
ORG
as king over
Israel
GPE
. Next , anoint
Elisha
PERSON
son of Shaphat from
Abel Meholah
PERSON
. He will be the prophet who takes your place .
Jehu
PERSON
will kill anyone who escapes
Hazael
PERSON
's sword , and
Elisha
PERSON
will kill anyone who escapes from
Jehu
PERSON
's sword . I still have
7000
CARDINAL
people in
Israel
GPE
who have never bowed down to
Baal
PERSON
or kissed that idol . "
So Elijah left that place and went to find
Elisha
PERSON
son of Shaphat .
Elisha
PERSON
was plowing
12 acres
QUANTITY
of land and was working on the last acre when
Elijah
ORG
came . Elijah went to
Elisha
PERSON
and put his coat on
Elisha
PERSON
.
Elisha
PERSON
immediately left his oxen and ran after
Elijah
ORG
.
Elisha
PERSON
said , " Let me kiss my mother and father goodbye . Then I will follow you . " Elijah answered , " You can do that . I will not stop you . "
Elisha
PERSON
turned away from him and went back . He killed the oxen and used the yoke for firewood .
He boiled the meat , gave it to the people , and they all ate together . Then
Elisha
PERSON
went to follow
Elijah
ORG
and became his helper .
David
PERSON
asked , " Is there anyone still left in
Saul
PERSON
's family ? I want to show kindness to this person . I want to do it for
Jonathan
PERSON
. " There was a servant named
Ziba
PERSON
from
Saul
PERSON
's family .
David
PERSON
's servants called
Ziba
ORG
to
David
PERSON
. King
David
PERSON
said to
Ziba
GPE
, " Are you
Ziba
PERSON
? "
Ziba
ORG
said , " Yes , I am your servant
Ziba
GPE
. "
The king said , " Is there anyone left in
Saul
PERSON
's family ? I want to show God 's kindness to this person . "
Ziba
ORG
said to King
David
PERSON
, "
Jonathan
PERSON
has a son still living . He is crippled in both feet . " The king said to
Ziba
GPE
, " Where is this son ? "
Ziba
ORG
said to the king , " He is at the house of
Makir
NORP
son of
Ammiel
PERSON
in
Lo Debar
FAC
. " Then King
David
PERSON
sent some of his officers to
Lo Debar
PERSON
to bring
Jonathan
PERSON
's son from the house of
Makir
NORP
son of
Ammiel
PERSON
.
Jonathan
PERSON
's son
Mephibosheth
PERSON
came to
David
PERSON
and bowed with his face low to the floor .
David
PERSON
said , "
Mephibosheth
PERSON
? "
Mephibosheth
PERSON
said , " Yes sir , it is I , your servant
Mephibosheth
PERSON
. "
David
PERSON
said to
Mephibosheth
PERSON
, " Do n't be afraid . I will be kind to you because of your father
Jonathan
PERSON
. I will give back to you all the land of your grandfather
Saul
PERSON
. And you will always be able to eat at my table . "
Mephibosheth
PERSON
bowed to
David
PERSON
again and he said , " I am no better than a dead dog , but you are being very kind to me . " Then King
David
PERSON
called
Saul
PERSON
's servant
Ziba
PERSON
and said , " I have given
Saul
PERSON
's family and everything he owns to your master 's grandson ,
Mephibosheth
PERSON
. You will farm the land for
Mephibosheth
PERSON
. Your sons and servants will do this for him . You will harvest the crops . Then your master 's grandson will have plenty of food to eat , but
Mephibosheth
PERSON
will always be allowed to eat at my table . "
Ziba
ORG
had
15
CARDINAL
sons and
20
CARDINAL
servants . He said to King
David
PERSON
, " I am your servant . I will do everything that my lord the king commands . " So
Mephibosheth
PERSON
ate at
David
PERSON
's table like one of the king 's sons .
Mephibosheth
PERSON
had a young son named
Mica
PERSON
. All the people in
Ziba
GPE
's family became
Mephibosheth
PERSON
's servants .
Mephibosheth
PERSON
lived in
Jerusalem
GPE
. He was crippled in both feet , and every day he ate at the king 's table . People told
Joab
PERSON
what had happened , " Look , the king is crying and mourning for
Absalom
PERSON
. "
So the joy of victory turned to sadness for everyone . It was
a very sad day
DATE
because the people heard , " The king is mourning for his son . " The people came into the city quietly as if they were the ones who had been defeated in battle . The king had covered his face and was crying loudly , " O my son
Absalom
PERSON
, O Absalom , my son , my son ! "
Joab
PERSON
came into the king 's palace and said to the king , " You are humiliating every one of your officers ! Look , they saved your life
today
DATE
and the lives of your sons and daughters and your wives and slave women . It seems that you love those who hate you , and you hate those who love you !
Today
DATE
you have made it clear to your officers and men that they mean nothing to you . It appears as if you would have been perfectly happy if
Absalom
PERSON
had lived and the rest of us had been killed
today
DATE
! Now get up and go encourage your officers .
I swear by the Lord , if you do n't go out and do that right now , not
one
CARDINAL
man will be with you
tonight
TIME
. And that will be worse for you than all the trouble you have had since you were a child . " So the king went to the city gate . The news spread that the king was at the gate , so all the people came to see him , except for the Israelites who had run away to their homes . The tribes of
Israel
GPE
began discussing what to do next . They said , " King
David
PERSON
saved us from the
Philistines
NORP
and our other enemies .
David
PERSON
left the country because he was running away from
Absalom
PERSON
. We anointed Absalom to be the king , but he was killed in battle . So we should bring
David
PERSON
back to be the king again . " King
David
PERSON
sent a message to
Zadok
GPE
and
Abiathar
PERSON
the priests .
David
PERSON
said , " Speak to the leaders of
Judah
ORG
and tell them , ' Why are you the last tribe to bring
King David
PERSON
back home ? See , all the
Israelites
NORP
are talking about bringing the king back home . You are my brothers , my family , so why are you the last tribe to bring the king back ? ' Also tell
Amasa
ORG
, ' You are part of my family . I swear that I will make you captain of the army in
Joab
GPE
's place . ' "
David
PERSON
touched the hearts of the people of
Judah
PERSON
, and they all agreed as one . The people of
Judah
ORG
sent a message to the king , saying , " You and all your officers come back ! " King
David
PERSON
came to
the Jordan River
LOC
. The people of
Judah
PERSON
came to
Gilgal
GPE
to meet the king and take him across
the Jordan River
LOC
. Shimei son of
Gera
PERSON
, from the tribe of
Benjamin
PERSON
, lived in
Bahurim
GPE
.
Shimei
ORG
rushed down to meet
King David
PERSON
, with the rest of the people of
Judah
PERSON
.
About 1000
CARDINAL
people from the tribe of
Benjamin
PERSON
came with
Shimei
GPE
.
Ziba
PERSON
the servant from
Saul
PERSON
's family also came .
Ziba
ORG
brought his
15
CARDINAL
sons and
20
CARDINAL
servants with him . All these people hurried to
the Jordan River
LOC
to meet King
David
PERSON
. The people went across
the Jordan River
LOC
to help bring the king 's family back to
Judah
PERSON
. They did whatever the king wanted . While the king was crossing the river ,
Shimei
GPE
son of
Gera
PERSON
came to meet him . He bowed down to the ground in front of the king .
Shimei
ORG
said to the king , " My lord , do n't think about the wrong things I did .
My lord and king , do n't remember the bad things I did when you left
Jerusalem
GPE
. I know that I sinned . That is why
today
DATE
I am the
first
ORDINAL
person from
Joseph
PERSON
's family to come down and meet you , my lord and king . "
Abishai
PERSON
son of
Zeruiah
GPE
said , " Let 's kill him for all the bad things he said about the Lord 's chosen king . "
David
PERSON
said , " What should I do with you , sons of
Zeruiah
GPE
? Are you trying to cause me trouble ? No one will be put to death in
Israel
GPE
today
DATE
!
Today
DATE
I know that I am king over
Israel
GPE
. " Then the king said to
Shimei
GPE
, " You will not die . " The king made a promise to
Shimei
GPE
that he himself would not kill
Shimei
ORG
.
Saul
PERSON
's grandson ,
Mephibosheth
PERSON
, came down to meet King
David
PERSON
.
Mephibosheth
PERSON
had not cared for his feet , trimmed his mustache , or washed his clothes since
the day
DATE
the king left
Jerusalem
GPE
. When he met the king at
Jerusalem
GPE
, the king said , "
Mephibosheth
PERSON
, why did n't you go with me when I ran away from
Jerusalem
GPE
? "
Mephibosheth
PERSON
answered , " My lord and king , my servant tricked me . I am crippled so I said to my servant ,
Ziba
GPE
, ' Go saddle a donkey for me so that I can go with the king . ' But my servant tricked me and said bad things about me . My lord and king , you are like an angel from God . Do whatever you think is right . You could have killed all my grandfather 's family , but you did not do that . Instead , you included me among the people who eat at your own table .
So I do n't have a right to complain to the king about anything . " The king said to
Mephibosheth
PERSON
, " Do n't say anything more about your problems . This is what I have decided : You and
Ziba
ORG
will divide the land . "
Mephibosheth
PERSON
said to the king , " My lord and king , it is enough that you have come home in peace . Let
Ziba
PERSON
have the land . "
Barzillai
PERSON
of
Gilead
ORG
came down from Rogelim to cross
the Jordan River
LOC
with King
David
PERSON
and send him on his way home .
Barzillai
PERSON
was a very old man ,
80 years old
DATE
. He had given the king food and other things when
David
PERSON
was staying at Mahanaim .
Barzillai
PERSON
could do this because he was a very rich man .
David
PERSON
said to
Barzillai
PERSON
, " Come across the river with me .
I will take care of you if you will live in
Jerusalem
GPE
with me . " But
Barzillai
PERSON
said to the king , " Do you know how old I am ? Do you think I can go with you to
Jerusalem
GPE
? I am
80 years old
DATE
! I am too old to tell what is bad or good . I can not taste what I eat or drink or hear the voices of men and women singers . Why should you want to be bothered with me ? I do n't need any of the things that you want to give me . I will cross
the Jordan River
LOC
with you . Then please let me go back so that I can die in my own town and be buried in the grave of my father and mother .
But here is
Kimham
PERSON
; take him back with you as a servant , my lord and king . Do whatever you want with him . " The king answered , "
Kimham
ORG
will go back with me . I will be kind to him for you . I will do anything for you . " The king kissed
Barzillai
PERSON
and blessed him .
Barzillai
PERSON
went back home , and the king and all the people went across the river . The king crossed
the Jordan River
LOC
to
Gilgal
GPE
.
Kimham
PERSON
went with him . All the people of Judah and
half
CARDINAL
the people of
Israel
GPE
led
David
PERSON
across the river .
All the Israelites came to the king and said to him , " Why did our brothers , the people of
Judah
PERSON
, steal you away ? Why did they bring you and your family back across
the Jordan River
LOC
with your men ? " All the people of
Judah
PERSON
answered the Israelites , " We did it because the king is our close relative . Why are you angry with us about this ? We have not eaten food at the king 's expense . The king did not give us any gifts . " The Israelites answered , " We have
ten
CARDINAL
shares in
David
PERSON
, so we have more right to
David
PERSON
than you do . Why did you ignore us ? We were the
first
ORDINAL
ones to talk about bringing our king back . " But the people of
Judah
PERSON
replied with words that were even louder and angrier than those of the Israelites .
Kish
PERSON
was an important man from the tribe of
Benjamin
PERSON
. He was the son of Abiel . Abiel was the son of
Zeror
ORG
. Zeror was the son of
Becorath
PERSON
.
Becorath
PERSON
was the son of
Aphiah
PERSON
, a man from
Benjamin
PERSON
.
Kish
PERSON
had a son named
Saul
PERSON
, who was a handsome young man . There was no one more handsome than
Saul
PERSON
. He stood a head taller than any other man in
Israel
GPE
.
One day
DATE
,
Kish
PERSON
's donkeys got lost .
So he said to his son
Saul
PERSON
, " Take one of the servants and go look for the donkeys . "
Saul
PERSON
went to look for the donkeys . He walked through the hills of Ephraim and through the area around
Shalisha
PERSON
. But
Saul
PERSON
and the servant could not find
Kish
GPE
's donkeys . So they went to the area around
Shaalim
NORP
, but the donkeys were not there either . Then Saul traveled through the land of
Benjamin
PERSON
, but he and the servant still could not find the donkeys . Finally ,
Saul
PERSON
and the servant came to the town named
Zuph
PERSON
.
Saul
PERSON
said to his servant , " Let 's go back . My father will stop worrying about the donkeys and start worrying about us . " But the servant answered , " A man of God is in this town .
People respect him . Everything he says comes true , so let 's go into town . Maybe the man of God will tell us where we should go next . "
Saul
PERSON
said to his servant , " Sure , we can go into town , but what can we give to him ? We have no gift to give the man of God . Even the food in our bags is gone . What can we give him ? " Again the servant answered
Saul
PERSON
. " Look , I have a little bit of money . Let 's give it to the man of God .
Then he will tell us where we should go . "
Saul
PERSON
said to his servant , " That is a good idea . Let 's go . " So they went to the town where the man of God was . Saul and the servant were walking up the hill toward town when they met some young women on the road . The young women were coming out to get water . Saul and the servant asked the young women , " Is the seer here ? " -LRB- In the past , people in
Israel
GPE
called a prophet a " seer . " So if they wanted to ask something from God , they would say , " Let 's go to the seer . " -RRB- The young women answered , " Yes , the seer is here .
He is just up the road . He came to town
today
DATE
. Some people are meeting together
today
DATE
to share in a fellowship offering at the place for worship . So go into town and you will find him . If you hurry , you can catch him before he goes up to eat at the place for worship . The seer blesses the sacrifice , so the people wo n't begin eating until he gets there . If you hurry , you can find him . "
Saul
PERSON
and the servant started walking up the hill to town . Just as they came into town , they saw
Samuel
PERSON
coming out of town , walking toward them . He was on his way to the place for worship .
The day
DATE
before , the Lord had told
Samuel
PERSON
, " At this time
tomorrow
DATE
I will send a man to you . He will be from the tribe of
Benjamin
PERSON
. You must anoint him and make him the new leader over my people
Israel
GPE
. This man will save my people from the
Philistines
NORP
. I have seen my people suffering , and I have heard their cries for help . " When
Samuel
PERSON
saw
Saul
PERSON
, the Lord said to
Samuel
PERSON
, " This is the man I told you about . He will rule my people . "
Saul
PERSON
went up to a man near the gate to ask directions . This man just happened to be
Samuel
PERSON
.
Saul
PERSON
said , " Excuse me .
Could you tell me where the seer 's house is ? "
Samuel
PERSON
answered , " I am the seer . Go on up ahead of me to the place for worship . You and your servant will eat with me
today
DATE
. I will let you go home
tomorrow morning
TIME
. I will answer all your questions . And do n't worry about the donkeys that you lost
three days ago
DATE
. They have been found . Now , there is something that everyone in
Israel
GPE
is looking for and that something is you and your family . "
Saul
PERSON
answered , " But I am a member of the tribe of
Benjamin
PERSON
.
It is the smallest tribe in
Israel
GPE
. And my family is the smallest in the tribe of
Benjamin
PERSON
. Why do you say
Israel
GPE
wants me ? " Then
Samuel
PERSON
took
Saul
PERSON
and his servant to the eating area .
About 30
CARDINAL
people had been invited to eat together and share the sacrifice .
Samuel
PERSON
gave
Saul
PERSON
and his servant the most important place at the table .
Samuel
PERSON
said to the cook , " Bring the meat I gave you . It is the share I told you to save . " The cook brought out the thigh and put it on the table in front of
Saul
PERSON
.
Samuel
PERSON
said , " Eat the meat that was put in front of you .
It was saved for you for this special time when I called the people together . " So
Saul
PERSON
ate with
Samuel
PERSON
that day
DATE
. After they finished eating , they came down from the place for worship and went back to town .
Samuel
PERSON
made a bed for
Saul
PERSON
on the roof , and
Saul
PERSON
went to sleep . Early
the next morning
TIME
,
Samuel
PERSON
shouted to
Saul
PERSON
on the roof and said , " Get up . I will send you on your way . "
Saul
PERSON
got up and went out of the house with
Samuel
PERSON
.
Saul
PERSON
, his servant , and
Samuel
PERSON
were walking together near the edge of town .
Samuel
PERSON
said to
Saul
PERSON
, " Tell your servant to go on ahead of us . I have a message for you from God . "
So the servant walked ahead of them . Meanwhile , the
Philistines
ORG
had gathered all of their army camps at
Aphek
PERSON
. The Israelites were camped by
the spring
DATE
near
Jezreel
GPE
. The
Philistine
PERSON
rulers were marching in divisions of
100
CARDINAL
and
1000
CARDINAL
men .
David
PERSON
and his men were at the back with
Achish
NORP
. The
Philistine
PERSON
captains asked , " What are these
Hebrews
NORP
doing here ? " Achish told the
Philistine
PERSON
captains , " This is
David
PERSON
. He was one of
Saul
PERSON
's officers , but he has been with me for a long time . I found nothing wrong in
David
PERSON
since the time he left
Saul
PERSON
and came to me . "
But the
Philistine
PERSON
captains were angry with
Achish
NORP
. They said , " Send him back . Let him go back to the city you gave him , but he ca n't go into battle with us . As long as he is here , we have an enemy in our own camp . He would make his king happy by killing our men . Is n't
David
PERSON
the one the
Israelites
NORP
sing about ? They dance and sing this song : '
Saul
PERSON
has killed
thousands
CARDINAL
of enemies , but
David
PERSON
has killed
tens of thousands
CARDINAL
. ' " So
Achish
NORP
called
David
PERSON
and said , " As surely as the Lord lives , you are loyal to me . I would be pleased to have you serve in my army . I have n't found anything wrong with you since
the day
DATE
you came to me .
The
Philistine
PERSON
rulers also think you are a good man . Go back in peace . Do n't do anything against the
Philistine
PERSON
rulers . "
David
PERSON
asked , " What have I done wrong ? Have you found anything wrong with me since the day I came to you ? So why wo n't you let me go to fight the enemies of my lord the king ? " Achish answered , " I believe that you are a good man . You are like an angel from God . But the
Philistine
PERSON
captains still say , '
David
PERSON
ca n't go with us into battle . ' Early in the morning , you and your men should go back to the city I gave you .
Do n't pay attention to the bad things the captains say about you . You are a good man , but you must leave as soon as there is enough light in the morning . " So
David
PERSON
and his men got up
early in the morning
TIME
and went back to the country of the
Philistines
NORP
, and the
Philistines
NORP
went up to
Jezreel
LOC
.
Saul
PERSON
told his son
Jonathan
PERSON
and his officers to kill
David
PERSON
. But
Jonathan
PERSON
liked
David
PERSON
very much , so he warned him . " Be careful !
Saul
PERSON
is looking for a chance to kill you . In
the morning
TIME
go into the field and hide . I will go out into the field with my father .
We will stand in the field where you are hiding . I will talk to my father about you , and I will tell you what I learn . "
Jonathan
PERSON
talked to his father
Saul
PERSON
.
Jonathan
PERSON
said good things about
David
PERSON
. He said , " You are the king .
David
PERSON
is your servant .
David
PERSON
has n't done anything wrong to you , so do n't do anything wrong to him . He has always been good to you . He risked his life when he killed the
Philistine
PERSON
. The Lord won a great victory for all
Israel
GPE
.
You saw it , and you were happy . Why do you want to hurt
David
PERSON
? He 's innocent . There is no reason to kill him . "
Saul
PERSON
listened to
Jonathan
PERSON
and made a promise . He said , " As surely as the Lord lives ,
David
PERSON
wo n't be put to death . " So
Jonathan
PERSON
called
David
PERSON
and told him everything that was said . Then
Jonathan
PERSON
brought
David to Saul
PERSON
, and
David
PERSON
was with
Saul
PERSON
as before . Once again there was war with the
Philistines
NORP
, and
David
PERSON
went out to fight . He defeated them badly , and they ran away .
Later , in
Saul
PERSON
's house ,
David
PERSON
was playing the harp .
Saul
PERSON
was there with his spear in his hand . Then an evil spirit from the Lord came on
Saul
PERSON
.
Saul
PERSON
threw his spear at
David
PERSON
and tried to pin him to the wall .
David
PERSON
jumped out of the way , so the spear missed him and stuck in the wall .
That night
TIME
,
David
PERSON
ran away . Saul sent men to watch
David
PERSON
's house . They stayed there
all night
TIME
. They were waiting to kill
David
PERSON
in
the morning
TIME
, but
David
PERSON
's wife
Michal
PERSON
warned him . She said , " You must run away
tonight
TIME
and save your life .
If you do n't , you will be killed
tomorrow
DATE
. " Then Michal let
David
PERSON
down out of a window , and he escaped and ran away . Michal took the household god , put clothes on it , and put goats ' hair on its head . Then she put the statue in the bed . Saul sent messengers to take
David
PERSON
prisoner . But
Michal
ORG
said , "
David
PERSON
is sick . " The men went and told
Saul
PERSON
, but he sent the messengers back to see
David
PERSON
.
Saul
PERSON
told these men , " Bring
David
PERSON
to me . Bring him lying on his bed if you must , even if it kills him . " The messengers went to
David
PERSON
's house .
They went inside to get him , but they saw it was only a statue and that its hair was only goat 's hair .
Saul
PERSON
said to
Michal
PERSON
, " Why did you trick me like this ? You let my enemy escape , and now he is gone . " Michal answered Saul , "
David
PERSON
told me he would kill me if I did n't help him escape . "
David
PERSON
escaped and ran away to
Samuel
PERSON
at
Ramah
ORG
. He told
Samuel
PERSON
everything that
Saul
PERSON
had done to him . Then
David
PERSON
and
Samuel
PERSON
went to the camps where the prophets stayed .
David
PERSON
stayed there . Saul heard that
David
PERSON
was there in the camps near
Ramah
ORG
. So he sent some men to arrest
David
PERSON
.
But when they came to the camps , there was a group of prophets prophesying .
Samuel
PERSON
was standing there leading the group . The
Spirit
ORG
of God came on
Saul
PERSON
's messengers and they began prophesying . Saul heard about this , so he sent other messengers , but they also began prophesying . So
Saul
PERSON
sent messengers a
third
ORDINAL
time , and they also began prophesying . Finally ,
Saul
PERSON
himself went to
Ramah
ORG
. Saul came to the big well by the threshing floor at Secu . He asked , " Where are
Samuel
PERSON
and
David
PERSON
? " The people answered , " In the camps near
Ramah
ORG
. " So
Saul
PERSON
went out to the camps near
Ramah
ORG
.
The
Spirit
ORG
of God came on
Saul
PERSON
, and he also began prophesying . He prophesied all the way to the camps at
Ramah
ORG
.
Saul
PERSON
even took off his clothes . He lay there naked
all day
DATE
and through
the night
TIME
. So even
Saul
PERSON
prophesied there in front of
Samuel
PERSON
. That is why people say , " Is Saul also one of the prophets ? " When King
Hezekiah
PERSON
heard this , he tore his clothes to show he was upset . Then he put on sackcloth and went to the Lord 's Temple .
Hezekiah
PERSON
sent
Eliakim
PERSON
the palace manager , Shebna the royal secretary , and the elders of the priests to the prophet
Isaiah
PERSON
son of
Amoz
ORG
.
They wore the special clothes that showed they were sad and upset . They said to
Isaiah
PERSON
, " King
Hezekiah
PERSON
has commanded that
today
DATE
will be
a special day
DATE
for sorrow and sadness . It will be
a very sad day
DATE
, like the time a child should be born , but is not strong enough to come from its mother 's womb . The commander 's master , the king of
Assyria
GPE
, has sent him to say bad things about the living God . Maybe the Lord your God will hear all those things . Maybe he will prove the enemy is wrong ! So pray for the people who are still left alive . " King
Hezekiah
PERSON
's officers went to
Isaiah
PERSON
.
Isaiah
PERSON
said to them , " Give this message to your master ,
Hezekiah
PERSON
: The Lord says , ' Do n't be afraid of what you heard from the commanders . Do n't believe what those " boys " from the king of
Assyria
GPE
said to make fun of me .
Look , I will send a spirit against the king of
Assyria
GPE
. He will get a report warning him about a danger , so he will return to his own country . And I will cut him down with a sword in his own country . ' " The commander heard that the king of
Assyria
GPE
had left
Lachish
PERSON
. He found him at
Libnah
PERSON
, fighting against that city . Then the king of
Assyria
GPE
heard a report that said , " Tirhakah , the king of
Ethiopia
GPE
, has come to fight against you . " So the king of
Assyria
GPE
sent messengers to
Hezekiah
PERSON
again . He told them , " Tell King
Hezekiah of Judah
PERSON
these things : ' Do n't be fooled by the god you trust when he says
Jerusalem
GPE
will not be defeated by the king of
Assyria
GPE
. You have heard what the kings of
Assyria
GPE
did to all the other countries . We completely destroyed them !
Will you be saved ? No ! Did the gods of those nations save their people ? No , my ancestors destroyed them all . They destroyed
Gozan
GPE
,
Haran
GPE
,
Rezeph
PERSON
, and the people of
Eden
GPE
living in
Tel Assar
PERSON
. Where is the king of
Hamath
PERSON
? The king of
Arpad
GPE
? The king of the city of
Sepharvaim
GPE
? The kings of
Hena
ORG
and
Ivvah
GPE
? ' "
Hezekiah
PERSON
received the letters from the messengers and read them .
Then he went up to the Lord 's Temple and laid the letters out in front of the Lord .
Hezekiah
PERSON
prayed before the Lord and said , " Lord , God of
Israel
GPE
, you sit as King above the
Cherub
PERSON
angels . You alone are the God who rules all the kingdoms on earth . You made heaven and earth . Lord , please listen to me . Lord , open your eyes and look at this message . Hear the words that
Sennacherib
GPE
sent to insult the living God . It is true , Lord . The kings of
Assyria
GPE
did destroy all those nations . They did throw the gods of those nations into the fire .
But they were not real gods . They were only wood and stone -- statues that people made . That is why the kings of
Assyria
GPE
could destroy them . But you are the Lord our God , so please save us from the king of
Assyria
GPE
. Then all the other nations will know that you , Lord , are the only God . " Then
Isaiah
PERSON
son of
Amoz
ORG
sent this message to
Hezekiah
PERSON
.
Isaiah
PERSON
said , " The Lord , the God of
Israel
GPE
, says this : You prayed to me about the message that came from
King Sennacherib
ORG
of
Assyria
GPE
. I have heard you . " This is the Lord 's message against
Sennacherib
GPE
: ' The virgin daughter
Zion
PERSON
does not think you are important . She makes fun of you .
Daughter Jerusalem
ORG
shakes her head at you and laughs behind your back . But who did you insult and make fun of ? Who did you speak against ? You were against the Holy One of
Israel
GPE
. You acted like you were better than he was ! You sent your messengers to insult the Lord . You said , " I came with my many chariots to the high mountains deep inside
Lebanon
GPE
. I cut down the tallest cedar trees and the best fir trees of
Lebanon
GPE
. I went to its highest mountains , its thickest forests . I dug wells , and drank water from new places .
I dried up the rivers of
Egypt
GPE
and walked on the land there . " That is what you said , but have n't you heard what I said ? I planned it long ago ; from ancient times I planned it . And now I have made it happen . I let you tear down the strong cities and change them into piles of rocks . The people in the cities had no power . They were afraid and confused . They were about to be cut down like grass and plants in the field . They were like grass growing on the housetops , dying before it grows tall . I know all about your battles ; I know when you rested , when you went out to war , and when you came home .
I also know when you got upset at me . Yes , you were upset at me . I heard your proud insults . So I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth . Then I will turn you around and lead you back the way you came . ' " Then the Lord said , " I will give you a sign to show that these words are true . You were not able to plant seeds
this year
DATE
, so
next year
DATE
you will eat grain that grows wild from
the previous year 's
DATE
crop . But in
the third year
DATE
, you will eat grain from seeds that you planted . You will harvest your crops and have plenty to eat . You will plant grapevines and eat their fruit .
You will plant vineyards and eat the grapes from them . The people from the family of
Judah
PERSON
who have escaped and are left alive will be like plants that send their roots deep into the ground and produce fruit above the ground . That is because a few people will come out of
Jerusalem
GPE
alive . There will be survivors coming from
Mount Zion
LOC
. The strong love of the Lord God will do this . " So the Lord says this about the king of
Assyria
GPE
: ' He will not come into this city or shoot an arrow at this city . He will not bring his shields up against this city or build up a hill of dirt to attack its walls . He will go back the way he came , and he will not come into this city . The Lord says this . I will protect this city and save it .
I will do this for myself and for my servant
David
PERSON
. ' "
That night
TIME
the angel of the Lord went out and killed
185,000
CARDINAL
people in the
Assyrian
NORP
camp . When the others got up in
the morning
TIME
, they saw all the dead bodies . So
King Sennacherib
ORG
of
Assyria
GPE
left and went back to
Nineveh
PERSON
where he stayed .
One
CARDINAL
day
Sennacherib
GPE
was in the temple of his god
Nisroch
PERSON
, worshiping him . His sons
Adrammelech
PERSON
and
Sharezer
PERSON
killed him with a sword and ran away to
Ararat
ORG
. So his son
Esarhaddon
PERSON
became the new king of
Assyria
GPE
.
Elisha
PERSON
the prophet called
one
CARDINAL
of the men from the group of prophets and said to him , " Get ready and take this small bottle of oil in your hand . Go to
Ramoth Gilead
PERSON
.
When you arrive , find
Jehu
GPE
son of Jehoshaphat , the son of
Nimshi
ORG
. Then go in and make him get up from among his brothers . Take him to an inner room . Take the small bottle of oil and pour the oil on
Jehu
PERSON
's head . Say , ' This is what the Lord says : I have anointed you to be the new king over
Israel
GPE
. ' Then open the door and run away . Do n't wait ! " So this young man , the prophet , went to
Ramoth Gilead
PERSON
. When the young man arrived , he saw the captains of the army sitting . He said , " Captain , I have a message for you . "
Jehu
PERSON
asked , " Which
one
CARDINAL
of us is the message for ? " The young man said , " For you , sir . "
Jehu
PERSON
got up and went into the house . Then the young prophet poured the oil on
Jehu
PERSON
's head and said to him , " The Lord , the God of
Israel
GPE
, says , ' I am anointing you to be the new king over the Lord 's people ,
Israel
GPE
. You must destroy the family of
Ahab
PERSON
your king . In this way I will punish
Jezebel
PERSON
for the deaths of my servants , the prophets , and the deaths of all the Lord 's servants who were murdered . So all
Ahab
PERSON
's family will die . I will not let any male child in
Ahab
PERSON
's family live . It does n't matter if that male child is a slave or a free person in
Israel
GPE
. I will make
Ahab
PERSON
's family like the family of
Jeroboam
PERSON
son of
Nebat
PERSON
and like the family of
Baasha
GPE
son of
Ahijah
GPE
.
The dogs will eat Jezebel in the area of
Jezreel
GPE
, and she will not be buried . ' " Then the young prophet opened the door and ran away .
Jehu
PERSON
went back to his king 's officers .
One
CARDINAL
of the officers said to
Jehu
PERSON
, " Is everything all right ? Why did this crazy man come to you ? "
Jehu
PERSON
answered the servants , " You know the man and the crazy things he says . " The officers said , " No , tell us the truth . What did he say ? "
Jehu
PERSON
told the officers what the young prophet said .
Jehu
PERSON
said , " He said a few things and then he said , ' This is what the Lord says : I have anointed you to be the new king over
Israel
GPE
. ' "
Then each officer quickly took his robe off and put it on the steps in front of
Jehu
GPE
. Then they blew the trumpet and made the announcement , "
Jehu
PERSON
is king ! " So
Jehu
PERSON
son of Jehoshaphat , son of
Nimshi
ORG
, made plans against
Joram
ORG
. At that time
Joram
ORG
and the Israelites had been trying to defend
Ramoth Gilead
PERSON
from
King Hazael
ORG
of
Aram
GPE
. King
Joram
PERSON
had fought against
King Hazael
PERSON
of
Aram
GPE
. But the
Arameans
NORP
wounded
King Joram
PERSON
, and he went to
Jezreel
ORG
to get well from those injuries . So
Jehu
PERSON
told the officers , " If you agree that I am the new king , do n't let anyone escape from the city to tell the news in
Jezreel
GPE
. "
Joram
ORG
was resting in
Jezreel
GPE
, so
Jehu
PERSON
got in his chariot and drove to
Jezreel
ORG
. King Ahaziah of Judah had also come to
Jezreel
LOC
to see
Joram
ORG
. A guard was standing on the tower in
Jezreel
GPE
.
He saw
Jehu
PERSON
's large group coming . He said , " I see a large group of people ! "
Joram
ORG
said , " Send someone on a horse to meet them . Tell this messenger to ask if they come in peace . " So the messenger rode on a horse to meet
Jehu
PERSON
. The messenger said , " King
Joram
PERSON
says , ' Do you come in peace ? ' "
Jehu
PERSON
said , " You have nothing to do with peace . Come and follow me . " The guard told
Joram
ORG
, " The messenger went to the group , but he has not come back yet . " Then
Joram
ORG
sent out a
second
ORDINAL
messenger on a horse .
This man came to
Jehu
PERSON
's group and said , " King
Joram
PERSON
says , ' Peace . ' "
Jehu
PERSON
answered , " You have nothing to do with peace . Come and follow me . " The guard told
Joram
ORG
, " The
second
ORDINAL
messenger went to the group , but he has not come back yet . There is a man driving his chariot like a mad man . He is driving like
Jehu
PERSON
son of
Nimshi
ORG
. "
Joram
ORG
said , " Get me my chariot ! " So the servant got
Joram
ORG
's chariot . Both King Joram of
Israel
GPE
and
King Ahaziah of Judah
ORG
got their chariots and drove out to meet
Jehu
PERSON
. They met him at the property of
Naboth
ORG
from
Jezreel
GPE
.
Joram
ORG
saw
Jehu
PERSON
and asked , " Do you come in peace ,
Jehu
PERSON
? "
Jehu
PERSON
answered , " There is no peace as long as your mother
Jezebel
PERSON
does many acts of prostitution and witchcraft . "
Joram
ORG
turned the horses to run away . He said to
Ahaziah
GPE
, " It is a trick ,
Ahaziah
GPE
! " But
Jehu
PERSON
grabbed his bow and shot
Joram
ORG
in the middle of his back , through the heart .
Joram
ORG
fell dead in his chariot .
Jehu
PERSON
said to his chariot driver
Bidkar
PERSON
, " Take
Joram
ORG
's body up and throw it into the field of
Naboth
ORG
from
Jezreel
GPE
. Remember when you and I rode together with
Joram
ORG
's father
Ahab
PERSON
, the Lord said this would happen to him . The Lord said , '
Yesterday
DATE
I saw the blood of
Naboth
ORG
and his sons . So I will punish
Ahab
PERSON
in this field . '
The Lord said that . So take
Joram
ORG
's body and throw it into the field , just as he said . " King Ahaziah of Judah saw this and ran away . He tried to escape through the garden house , but
Jehu
PERSON
followed him .
Jehu
PERSON
had said , "
Shoot Ahaziah
PERSON
too ! "
Ahaziah
PERSON
was wounded when he was in his chariot on the road to
Gur
PERSON
near
Ibleam
GPE
. He got as far as
Megiddo
PERSON
, but he died there .
Ahaziah
PERSON
's servants carried his body in the chariot to
Jerusalem
GPE
. They buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in
the City of David
GPE
.
Ahaziah
PERSON
had become king over
Judah
PERSON
during
Joram
ORG
's
eleventh year
DATE
as king of
Israel
GPE
.
When
Jehu
PERSON
came to
Jezreel
GPE
, Jezebel heard the news . She put her makeup on and fixed her hair . Then she stood by the window and looked out .
Jehu
PERSON
entered the city .
Jezebel
PERSON
said , " Hello , you
Zimri
PERSON
. You killed your master just as he did . "
Jehu
PERSON
looked up at the window and said , " Who is on my side ? Who ? "
Two
CARDINAL
or
three
CARDINAL
eunuchs looked out at
Jehu
GPE
.
Jehu
PERSON
said , " Throw Jezebel down ! "
Then the eunuchs threw her down . Some of her blood splashed on the wall and on the horses that trampled her body .
Jehu
PERSON
went into the house and ate and drank . Then he said , " Now see about this cursed woman . Bury her , because she is a king 's daughter . " The men went to bury
Jezebel
PERSON
, but they could not find her body . They could only find her skull , her feet , and the palms of her hands . When the men came back and told
Jehu
PERSON
, he said , " The Lord told his servant
Elijah the Tishbite
ORG
to give this message : ' Dogs will eat the body of Jezebel in the area of
Jezreel
LOC
. Her body will be like dung on the field in the area of
Jezreel
LOC
. No one will be able to recognize her body ! ' "
Thank you very much ,
Tony
PERSON
.
Palestinian
NORP
leader
Yasser Arafat
PERSON
is expected to return to
the White House
ORG
late Tuesday
DATE
for more talks with President
Clinton
PERSON
. Mr.
Arafat
PERSON
made no comment after
Tuesday
DATE
's
first
ORDINAL
round of
White House
ORG
talks moving quickly past journalists to a waiting limousine . A
White House
ORG
spokesman said the talks are aimed at establishing the parameters for resuming
Israeli
NORP
- Palestinian negotiations .
Palestinians
NORP
have demanded clarification of
US
GPE
proposals for achieving a final peace accord .
Egypt
GPE
's President
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
has called on
Israeli
NORP
leaders to stop talking about war and to make peace with the
Palestinians
NORP
and
Syria
GPE
. In an interview with
Israeli
NORP
Television
Monday
DATE
Mr.
Mubarak
PERSON
said
Israel
GPE
knows what is necessary for peace , the return of lands captured in the 1967
Middle East
LOC
war . He also acknowledged the
Palestinian
NORP
refugees ' right of return .
In another interview
Palestinian
NORP
leader
Yasser Arafat
PERSON
said the
Israelis
NORP
and
Palestinians
NORP
had made real progress
Red Sea
LOC
resort of
Taba
GPE
, but Prime Minister
Ehud Barak
PERSON
has suspended contacts with the
Palestinians
NORP
until after the
February 6th
DATE
election . Correspondent
Laurie Cassman
PERSON
has a report . Prime Minister
Barak
PERSON
's decision not to meet
Yasser Arafat
PERSON
this week
DATE
comes after the
Palestinian
NORP
leader 's angry speech on
Sunday
DATE
at an economic forum in
Switzerland
GPE
. Mr.
Arafat
PERSON
accused
Israel
GPE
of waging a savage and barbaric war against his people .
One day earlier
DATE
Israeli
NORP
and
Palestinian
NORP
negotiators had announced that
a week
DATE
of marathon talks have brought them closer than ever to a final agreement . After the angry outburst Mr.
Arafat
PERSON
reaffirmed his commitment to peace and his willingness to meet Mr.
Barak
PERSON
. The meeting was expected
later this week
DATE
in
Stockholm
GPE
, but Mr.
Barak
PERSON
's security advisor told
Israeli Radio
ORG
Monday
DATE
such a meeting now is out of the question . He described the
Arafat
PERSON
speech as inflammatory . Mr.
Barak
PERSON
can not risk the controversial meeting ahead of
next week 's
DATE
election . He still trails far behind the hard line
Likud Party
ORG
leader
Ariel Sharon
PERSON
in the opinion polls .
Laurie Cassman
PERSON
,
VOA News
ORG
,
Jerusalem
GPE
. The head of official
Palestinian
NORP
television has been assassinated . Hooded men gunned down
Hisha Mickey
PERSON
at a hotel in
Gaza City
GPE
. The
Palestinian
NORP
leadership accused the collaborators with
Israel
GPE
for killing Mr.
Mickey
PERSON
.
Israel
GPE
says its security forces were not involved . Mr.
Mickey
PERSON
was in charge of
Palestinian
NORP
television and the
Palestinian
NORP
satellite channel . Reports from
China
GPE
say
North Korean
NORP
President
Kim Jong Il
PERSON
is planning to announce economic reforms for his country . Mr.
Kim
PERSON
visited a center for high technology business in
Shanghai
GPE
on
Friday
DATE
.
The United States
GPE
has issued a worldwide caution to
Americans
NORP
warning of possible terrorist threats . No threats are specified but the
US
GPE
embassy in
Rome
GPE
was closed
Friday
DATE
for what officials called security reasons . The embassy could reopen
as early as Monday
DATE
.
The State Department
ORG
periodically issues worldwide cautions .
One
CARDINAL
was issued
last October
DATE
following the deadly terrorist bombing of
the USS Cole Navy
PRODUCT
destroyer in
Yemen
GPE
. I am
David Coler
PERSON
,
VOA News
ORG
.
Israel
GPE
and the
Palestinians
NORP
have resumed high level peace talks . The
two
CARDINAL
sides met into
the early hours
TIME
Friday
DATE
at the crossing between
the Gaza Strip
GPE
and
Israel
GPE
.
Israeli
NORP
officials say
Israel
GPE
is still hopeful that a framework peace agreement can be reached before the unofficial deadline , the end of President
Clinton
PERSON
's term in office on
January 20th
DATE
.
UN
ORG
Secretary General
Kofi Annan
PERSON
said
Wednesday
DATE
, it is important to help spread democracy around the world .
VOA
ORG
's
Breck Ardery
PERSON
reports from
the United Nations
ORG
. In a new report , the Secretary General says democratization has now taken root as a universal norm and that
the United Nations
ORG
should strengthen its commitment to assisting nations that are moving toward democracy . Commenting on the report ,
UN
ORG
Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs
Danilo Turk
PERSON
told reporters the principle of national sovereignty does not preclude support for democracy . We are usually not sufficiently clear , we meaning the
Secretariat
PERSON
, in explaining that sovereignty and final analysis belongs to the people and sovereignty should be seen in a democratic context . Sovereignty is not simply a quality of statehood , but it has to do with the power of the people and democratic structures which make sovereignty an important human value . Mr.
Churk
PERSON
also has said that a lack of democracy is the root cause of many contemporary armed conflicts . The Secretary General 's report says democracy can develop anywhere and that it is a common misperception that democracy is a
Western
NORP
concept .
The report was issued in advance of a
UN
ORG
- sponsored conference on new and restored democracies that will be held in the
African
NORP
nation of
Benin
PERSON
in
early December
DATE
.
Breck Ardery
PERSON
,
VOA News
ORG
, at
the United Nations
FAC
.
Israeli
NORP
helicopter gunships struck
Palestinian
NORP
targets in
the West Bank
GPE
and
Gaza Strip
GPE
,
Thursday
DATE
.
Israeli
NORP
Prime Minister
Ehud Barak
PERSON
said the attacks were in retaliation for the killing of
Israeli
NORP
soldiers .
This morning
TIME
, the entire world was the witness of a cold - blooded brutal lynch of
two or three
CARDINAL
Israelis
NORP
within a
Palestinian
NORP
police station in
Ramallah
GPE
in the
Palestinian
NORP
- controlled territories .
Late Thursday
TIME
, Mr.
Barak
PERSON
invited
Likud
ORG
opposition leader
Ariel Sharon
PERSON
to join him in a government of national emergency . It was a visit by Mr.
Sharon
PERSON
to a
Jerusalem
GPE
religious holy site that sparked the violence that began
last month
DATE
between
Israelis
NORP
and
Palestinian
NORP
protesters .
UN
ORG
Secretary General
Kofi Annan
PERSON
who is leading mediation efforts in
the Middle East
LOC
urged
Palestinians
NORP
and
Israelis
NORP
,
Thursday
DATE
to show restraint . Both
Jordan
PERSON
's King
Abdullah
PERSON
and
Syria
GPE
's President
Bashar al - Assad
PERSON
charged
Israel
GPE
with insulting
Arabs
NORP
and
Muslims
NORP
by violating their rights at holy sites .
The United States
GPE
and
the European Union
ORG
will start lifting economic sanctions against
Yugoslavia
GPE
today
DATE
. Among the sanctions imposed against the regime of former President
Slobodan Milosevic
PERSON
during the fight over
Kosovo
GPE
are an oil embargo and a ban on commercial air traffic .
French
NORP
Foreign Minister
Hubert Vedrine
PERSON
said
Sunday
DATE
that relieving the pressure on
Belgrade
GPE
's devastated economy is the
first
ORDINAL
step towards supporting the new President
Vojislav Kostunica
PERSON
and reintegrating
Yugoslavia
GPE
into a democratic
Europe
LOC
.
Russian
NORP
and
Norwegian
NORP
divers searched the
fourth
ORDINAL
compartment of the wrecked submarine
Kursk
PRODUCT
,
Sunday
DATE
, but they found too much damage to proceed with the task of recovering bodies . A spokesman for
Russia
GPE
's
Northern Fleet
ORG
says the divers were only able to venture
about one meter
QUANTITY
into the compartment because of poor visibility .
The Voice of America
ORG
presents differing points of view on a wide variety of issues . Next , an editorial expressing the policies of the
United States
GPE
government .
This
month
DATE
's visit of
Bangladesh
GPE
Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina
PERSON
to
Washington
GPE
is further evidence of the strengthening ties between
the United States
GPE
and
Bangladesh
GPE
. It follows a visit
last March
DATE
by President
Bill Clinton
PERSON
to
Dhaka
GPE
, the
Bangladesh
GPE
capital . That was the
first
ORDINAL
time a
US
GPE
President had visited
Bangladesh
GPE
. The
US
GPE
is
Bangladesh
GPE
's largest trading partner and foreign investor .
US
GPE
investment in
Bangladesh
GPE
has increased over
the past four years
DATE
from
20 million dollars
MONEY
to
around 800 million dollars
MONEY
. Prime Minister
Hasina
PERSON
and President
Clinton
PERSON
expressed the hope that this trend will continue . It will depend on the implementation of investor - friendly policies . Both the
US
GPE
government and
American
NORP
businesses , welcomed the willingness of
Bangladesh
GPE
to embrace innovative approaches towards sustainable economic growth . Among other things , the
US
GPE
has worked with
Bangladesh
GPE
to establish
the Tropical Forest Conservation Fund
ORG
, the
first
ORDINAL
of its kind in the world . The Fund will make it possible for
Bangladesh
GPE
to redirect some debt repayment money to projects and at preserving unique eco-systems and protecting the environment .
The
Bangladesh
GPE
government also deserves credit for making significant progress toward eliminating child labor in the garment industry . The
US
GPE
is committed to working with
Bangladesh
GPE
on this and other core labor standards including freedom of association and collective bargaining . In addition to growing economic ties , the
US
GPE
and
Bangladesh
GPE
share a commitment to democracy at home and to meeting responsibilities abroad .
Bangladesh
GPE
is one of the largest contributors to international peacekeeping operations . Its personnel have served with
US
GPE
forces in
Somalia
GPE
,
Haiti
GPE
,
Bosnia
GPE
, and
Kosovo
GPE
.
Bangladesh
GPE
is also the
first
ORDINAL
South Asian
NORP
nation to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty . President
Clinton
PERSON
and Prime Minister
Hasina
PERSON
agreed that it is essential for the
US
GPE
and
Bangladesh
GPE
to coordinate positions on major issues , that come before
the United Nations
ORG
and other international bodies . As President
Clinton
PERSON
has said , the
US
GPE
and
Bangladesh
GPE
grow closer
every day
DATE
, through expanding trade , through the internet revolution and through a shared interest in building a world more peaceful , more tolerant , more prosperous and more free . President
Clinton
PERSON
has told a memorial service for the victims of the deadly bomb attack on
the USS Cole
PRODUCT
that justice will prevail .
Mr.
Clinton
PERSON
promised the gathering at the
Norfolk Naval
ORG
station
Wednesday
DATE
that those who carried out the deadly attack that killed
17
CARDINAL
sailors will be found . To those who attacked them , we say you will not find a safe harbor , we will find you and justice will prevail . Meanwhile , in
Yemen
GPE
President
Ali Abdul Salay
PERSON
said important evidence had been uncovered in the investigation . President
Salay
PERSON
was quoted as saying
two
CARDINAL
people responsible for the blast were killed in a suicide mission and that the attack had been planned for a long time . His comments were not immediately confirmed by
US
GPE
officials who are leading the investigation with
Yemen
GPE
's help . The
US Navy
ORG
destroyer damaged apparently by a terrorist bomb while refueling at the
Red Sea
LOC
port ,
Aden
GPE
has begun its journey back to the States for repair . As
Dave Gavlak
PERSON
reports , the
US
GPE
Cole
PRODUCT
was towed out of
the Aden Harbor
FAC
to a waiting
Norwegian
NORP
transport ship , that will actually carry the damaged destroyer home . The
American
NORP
national anthem played as
four
CARDINAL
tug boats pulled
the USS Cole
PRODUCT
slowly out of
Yemen
GPE
's southern port of
Aden
GPE
. The
Cole
PRODUCT
was badly damaged
two weeks ago
DATE
in an apparent suicide bombing that killed
17
CARDINAL
US
GPE
sailors .
Security was tight as the ship was towed out .
American
NORP
and
Yemeni
NORP
patrol boats mounted with machine guns escorted the
Cole
PRODUCT
out to open waters while
American
NORP
helicopters flew overhead . Some
Yemenis
NORP
expressed relief to see the ship leave . Many locals said they feared the bombing of the ship would serve as an excuse for continued
US
GPE
military presence in the
Gulf
LOC
country . Diplomats and analysts have commented that a joint investigation into the attack may in fact strengthen ties between the world super power and the poor , but strategic
Arab
NORP
state .
US
GPE
and
Yemeni
NORP
officials say they believe
Islamic
NORP
militants may have carried out the bombing . So far
two
CARDINAL
little known
Islamic
NORP
groups have claimed responsibility for the attack .
Yemeni
NORP
authorities claimed they have detained over
70
CARDINAL
people for questioning . These include some
Afghan - Arab
NORP
volunteers who came to
Yemen
GPE
after fighting against
Soviet
NORP
forces in
Afghanistan
GPE
in
the 1980s
DATE
.
Dave Gavlak
PERSON
for
VOA News
ORG
,
Cairo
GPE
.
A note scribbled by an officer on the
Russian
NORP
nuclear submarine
Kursk
PRODUCT
has revealed that
at least 23
CARDINAL
of its
118
CARDINAL
crewmembers survived the explosions which sank the vessel . The note was found in the pocket of Lieutenant
Dimitri Kolesnikov
PERSON
whose body was
one
CARDINAL
of the
first
ORDINAL
to be recovered the explosions that shattered the submarine . Most of the
Kursk
PRODUCT
's crew apparently died instantly in the explosions that tore open the
Kursk
PRODUCT
's
first
ORDINAL
six
CARDINAL
compartments or within
minutes
TIME
as water roared into the submarine . Lieutenant
Kolesnikov
PERSON
's note indicates some crewmembers survived for
several hours
TIME
. President
Clinton
PERSON
arrived in
Brunei
GPE
Tuesday
DATE
, getting a red carpet welcome from officials of the tiny
Islamic
NORP
sultanate . He is scheduled to deliver the keynote address
today
DATE
at
the Pacific Rim Conference
FAC
. The
Pacific Rim
LOC
leaders will discuss an array of economic issues
Wednesday
DATE
and
Thursday
DATE
, including high oil prices and the boom in electronic commerce .
Welcome to
another hour
TIME
of news and information here on
the Voice of America
ORG
. I 'm
Victor Moralis
PERSON
along with
David Chadwick
PERSON
on
VOA News Now
ORG
.
India
GPE
has signed a series of deals with
Russia
GPE
to acquire an aircraft carrier , fighter jets and tanks . The deals were signed as
Russian
NORP
President
Vladimir Putin
PERSON
concluded his talks with
Indian
NORP
leaders in
New Delhi
GPE
. The
two
CARDINAL
countries also signed a strategic partnership agreement , obligating both countries to avoid joining political or military alliances against each other . They also agreed to form a joint working group for mutual concerns on terrorism . News Now 's
Susan Yakie
PERSON
spoke with our
New Delhi
GPE
correspondent
Jim Teeple
PERSON
about the
Russian
NORP
leader 's visit and his comments about the situation in the disputed
Kashmir region
LOC
. He said exactly what the
Indians
NORP
wanted to hear , which is that the dispute over
Kashmir
LOC
between
India
GPE
and
Pakistan
GPE
should be solved bilaterally and that there should be no outside interference , as he put it in this question . Now this is something the
Indians
NORP
have been saying all along . Of course ,
Pakistan
GPE
wants international attention focussed on
Kashmir
LOC
, and Mr.
Putin
PERSON
also said that he supports
India
GPE
's tough approach to the external violence in
Kashmir
LOC
as he described it .
This is another thing that the
Indians
NORP
were glad to hear him say , and he also said that both
India
GPE
and
Russia
GPE
suffer from the same sort of terrorism , as he put it , referring of course to the separatist militancies in
Chechnya
GPE
and
Russia
GPE
and in
Jammu
GPE
and
Kashmir
LOC
. So on balance I do n't think that the
Indians
NORP
heard anything from Mr.
Putin
PERSON
that they did not want to hear . What sort of hold does
Russia
GPE
have on
India
GPE
and
Pakistan
GPE
?
Russia
GPE
has very little influence with
Pakistan
GPE
, but of course
Russia
GPE
supplies
India
GPE
with
70 %
PERCENT
of its military hardware and that was of course the
second
ORDINAL
pillar here of Mr.
Putin
PERSON
's visit , which was to finalize some very substantial arms deals . In fact , we 're hearing that those deals have now been finalized , that
Russia
GPE
will sell
India
GPE
300
CARDINAL
tanks , T -
90
CARDINAL
tanks , very advanced tanks , that
Russia
GPE
will also sell to
India
GPE
some
Sukoi
PERSON
- 30 bombers , fighter - bombers . They are going to allow
India
GPE
to assemble
about 140
CARDINAL
of these bombers here in
India
GPE
, and they are also going to finalize a deal whereby
India
GPE
will acquire the Admiral
Gorshkov
PERSON
. That 's an old
Russian
NORP
aircraft carrier that
India
GPE
has wanted to get for some time because
India
GPE
only has
one
CARDINAL
other aircraft carrier , and this carrier in particular would allow
the Indian Navy
ORG
to extend its strategic strength much farther than it currently can now . So indeed
Russia
GPE
does have quite a bit of influence here . These ties have gone way back ,
nearly 40 years
DATE
, and they were strengthened considerably by this visit . In fact both countries have now agreed to combat what they call terrorism with joint groups .
They have also set up a joint working group on
Afghanistan
GPE
, which is of course a cause of concern for both countries . Mr.
Putin
PERSON
's visit is the
first
ORDINAL
by a
Russian
NORP
leader in
seven years
DATE
. Why does the trip come now ? Well , his trip has actually been delayed for
a couple of years
DATE
.
Russian
NORP
President was supposed to visit
India
GPE
as early as
97 - 1998
DATE
, but of course
Boris Yeltsin 's
PERSON
health problems got in the way of that , and then of course , Mr.
Yeltsin
PERSON
's abrupt resignation
last year
DATE
another visit and then the subsequent election campaign and inauguration of
Vladimir Putin
PERSON
took some time , so it 's been put off for
a couple of years
DATE
. But there have also been a lot of delays in other areas . These arms agreements that we were just speaking about have taken quite some time to finalize . How does this visit by Mr.
Putin
PERSON
compare to President
Clinton
PERSON
's visit
earlier this year
DATE
? That 's an interesting question because
Vladimir Putin
PERSON
on
Wednesday
DATE
addressed the
Indian
NORP
Parliament
ORG
just as
Bill Clinton
PERSON
had done
six months ago
DATE
, and I think it 's safe to say that Mr.
Putin
PERSON
actually probably accomplished more than Mr.
Clinton
PERSON
did in the hard concrete terms of arms sales and that sort of thing , but it was Mr.
Clinton
PERSON
that stole the
Indian
NORP
lawmakers ' hearts . Of course you will recall when he spoke to the parliament there was an ecstatic welcome for him .
The
Indian
NORP
lawmakers were sort of clambering over each other to shake his hand as he left the parliament building . There was none of that for Mr.
Putin
PERSON
, but he did receive a very warm welcome , although most ordinary
Indians
NORP
who were actually rather captivated by Mr.
Clinton
PERSON
's visit did not really pay much attention to Mr.
Putin
PERSON
's visit . In fact his visit has somewhat been ignored and in fact the main news story here in
India
GPE
has been sort of a local controversy over the roll - back of fuel prices rather than Mr.
Putin
PERSON
's visit , but he did do what he had to do and he certainly strengthened ties in a strategic sense between
Russia
GPE
and
India
GPE
. That 's
VOA
ORG
correspondent
Jim Teeple
PERSON
. In a joint statement
Wednesday
DATE
,
India
GPE
and
Russia
GPE
called for further measures against
Afghanistan
GPE
's dominant
Taliban
ORG
faction . The statement accuses the
Taliban
ORG
of supporting international terrorism . In
the Gaza Strip
GPE
,
Wednesday
DATE
,
Israeli
NORP
soldiers fired on armed
Palestinians
NORP
trying to cut through a border fence . The
Army
ORG
says it may have killed
two
CARDINAL
of them .
ISRAELI
NORP
radio said
four
CARDINAL
Palestinians
NORP
were killed , but
Palestinian
NORP
security officials deny there were any casualties and they say no such incident took place .
US Energy
ORG
Secretary
Bill Richardson
PERSON
has extended an emergency order to keep electricity flowing to
California
GPE
. The measure will require western suppliers to sell power to the state for
at least another week
DATE
. As we hear from
Michael Sullivan
PERSON
, the official also proposed an energy price cap for the
West
LOC
, but the suggestion had a mixed response from western governors . The extension of the federal order will require power suppliers in the
West
LOC
to keep sending their surplus electricity to
California
GPE
. Electrical resources in the
West Coast
LOC
state are stretched to their limit with a looming threat of rolling blackouts .
California
GPE
's utility companies are not able to generate all the power their customers need , so they have turned to outside suppliers and in the face of rising prices the state 's
two
CARDINAL
largest utility firms have sunk
more than eight billion dollars
MONEY
in debt . Suppliers outside
California
GPE
had threatened to cut off the power , afraid that the cash - strapped utilities were not able to pay for it . The emergency order
last week
DATE
and the extension announced in
Denver
GPE
at a meeting of western governors will keep electricity flowing to
California
GPE
through
the middle of next week
DATE
. The crisis began
three years ago
DATE
when
California
GPE
imposed a price freeze on its private utility firms to protect consumers while the state deregulates its energy sector , but the lifting of market controls led to wild price fluctuations on the wholesale market .
This was made worse by several factors . No new generating stations have been built in the state in
recent years
DATE
and some existing generators are offline for repairs . At the same time
California
GPE
has been growing . Energy Secretary
Bill Richardson
PERSON
says it is a case of demand outpacing supplies . I know in
California
GPE
alone in
the last year
DATE
electricity demand has increased
13 %
PERCENT
.
California
GPE
's wholesale electricity prices , which had been capped at
250 dollars
MONEY
per megawatt hour in a regulated market , have peaked under deregulation at
1400 dollars
MONEY
per megawatt hour . With the current price freeze , utilities have been prevented from passing along the increase to consumers .
Wednesday
DATE
,
Energy
ORG
Secretary
Bill Richardson
PERSON
suggested a new price cap for electricity throughout the western states .
Oregon
GPE
's Governor supports the idea . Some other western leaders are not convinced that a price cap will solve the problem .
Energy suppliers oppose a cap , saying instead they need incentives to build more generating stations .
Last week
DATE
federal regulators imposed a so - called soft cap on
California
GPE
, which requires power firms to justify prices
above 150 dollars
MONEY
per megawatt hour . The measure does not however prevent them from charging above that level .
One
CARDINAL
large utility company ,
Southern California Edison
ORG
says it may have to file for bankruptcy unless government officials can offer some relief . The privately owned company is now
three and a half billion dollars
DATE
in debt . Consumer activists are skeptical . They know the utility recently declared a dividend for its stockholders , but
Edison
PERSON
's
Tom Higgins
PERSON
says the firm can not continue to pay high prices for electricity while keeping prices low for its customers . Our books are an open matter . It 's not hard for anybody to see . They can talk to the banks themselves and see that you know , clearly we do n't have the ability to do this .
We do n't print money in the basement .
California
GPE
's Governor
this week
DATE
warned that intermittent cutoffs of power around the state may begin as early as
next week
DATE
if nothing more is done to alleviate the crisis .
Mike O'Sullivan
PERSON
,
VOA News
ORG
,
Los Angeles
GPE
. International aid agencies have warned that proposed
United Nations
ORG
sanctions against
Afghanistan
GPE
's
Taliban
ORG
authorities could paralyze efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the victims of drought and conflict . The new sanctions proposed by
the United States
GPE
and
Russia
GPE
would impose an arms embargo on the
Taliban
ORG
. Among other things , they would also freeze
Taliban
ORG
assets abroad and restrict foreign travel by
Taliban
ORG
officials . The
UN
ORG
Co-ordinator for
Afghanistan
GPE
said in
Geneva
GPE
, the proposed
UN
ORG
measure could block badly - needed aid shipments . I 'm
Connie Lawn
PERSON
,
VOA News
ORG
.
Two
CARDINAL
more bombs have exploded near
Haiti
GPE
's capital killing a
7 - year - old
DATE
girl and wounding
two
CARDINAL
people in the latest pre-election violence . On
Wednesday
DATE
,
seven
CARDINAL
bombs exploded around
Port
GPE
- au - Prince . No group has claimed responsibility for
today
DATE
's blasts . The government and opposition are exchanging accusations over who is to blame for a wave of violence ahead of
Sunday
DATE
's presidential election . I 'm
Dave Deforest
PERSON
,
VOA News
ORG
. Violence between
Israelis
NORP
and
Palestinians
NORP
continued in
its third month
DATE
, though at a slightly reduced level overall .
Israeli
NORP
and
Palestinian
NORP
negotiators met separately at
the White House
FAC
with President
Bill Clinton
PERSON
in hopes of restarting direct negotiations between them for a final settlement .
RUSSIAN
NORP
officials say
Cuba
GPE
has no interest in completing construction of a
Soviet
NORP
era nuclear power plant on the island .
Russian
NORP
President
Vladimir Putin
PERSON
said
Friday
DATE
,
Moscow
GPE
has no plans to press
Havana
GPE
to finish construction of the
Juragua
GPE
nuclear facility . He made his comments on
the last day
DATE
of his official visit to the
Communist
NORP
ruled island . Construction halted on the
Juragua
GPE
plant in
1992
DATE
, following the collapse of
the Soviet Union
GPE
, which provided funding and technology for the project .
Friday
DATE
's announcement coincided with the permanent closing of the
Chernobyl
GPE
nuclear facility , which was the scene of the world 's worst nuclear accident in
1986
DATE
.
Israeli
NORP
soldiers have killed another
Palestinian
NORP
in
the West Bank
GPE
as clashes continue between the
two
CARDINAL
sides . Meanwhile ,
Israel
GPE
has confiscated the VIP card of a senior
Palestinian
NORP
official . Colonel
Taffiq Terrawi
PERSON
, a director of
Palestinian
NORP
intelligence , was briefly detained by
Israeli
NORP
soldiers at a
West Bank
GPE
road block , where they confiscated an
Israeli
NORP
permit that grants him free movement in and out of the area .
Colombian
NORP
authorities say the country 's largest
Marxist
NORP
rebel group has shot and killed a leading opposition congressman and
five
CARDINAL
others in a roadside ambush in a rebel held area of southern
Colombia
GPE
.
Police say the gunmen attacked lawmaker
Diego Turbai
NORP
and his entourage
Friday
DATE
. And if you are in
South Asia
LOC
, perhaps you heard
the Radio Canada International
ORG
test transmissions to your part of the world back on
the 8th , 9th
DATE
, and
10th of November
DATE
. They were via
Radio Netherlands
ORG
at
Flavo
GPE
, the
Netherlands
GPE
15:00 - 16:00
TIME
UTC
ORG
on
15360
DATE
and
17820
DATE
, that according to
Andy Senet
PERSON
, via
Glenhouser
PERSON
.
RCI
ORG
tells me that it is not yet decided whether it will start a permanent service to
South Asia
LOC
. Meanwhile ,
four
CARDINAL
Palestinian
NORP
policemen were killed
Wednesday
DATE
during a
nine - hour
TIME
battle with
Israeli
NORP
troops near a refugee camp in
the Gaza Strip
GPE
.
Meredith Bewl
PERSON
reports from
Jerusalem
GPE
. The
Israeli
NORP
military says
Palestinian
NORP
gunmen at the
Khan Younus
FAC
refugee camp in the southern part of
the Gaza Strip
GPE
opened fire on
Israeli
NORP
forces and the soldiers responded .
Palestinians
NORP
say
Israeli
NORP
rocket fire hit a police post and killed
at least one
CARDINAL
Palestinian
NORP
security officer .
At least three
CARDINAL
other
Palestinian
NORP
policemen were killed in the fierce clashes , which went on for hours . In the
West Bank
GPE
town of
Hebron
GPE
,
Israeli
NORP
soldiers gunned down a
Palestinian
NORP
member of the militant
Hamas
ORG
group as he was standing outside his shop .
Palestinians
NORP
called the shooting an assassination .
The Israeli Army
ORG
said it was checking the reports . The shooting appeared to be the latest in a series of targeted attacks against
anti-Israeli
NORP
militants . Deputy
Defense
ORG
Minister
Irfan Sneh
PERSON
said
this week
DATE
Israel
GPE
now has a policy of tracking down
Palestinians
NORP
who attack
Israelis
NORP
.
Meredith Bewl
PERSON
,
VOA News
ORG
Jerusalem
GPE
. Some overseas news .
Barak
PERSON
, who has been forced to call national elections , offered to recognize a
Palestinian
NORP
state .
There 's
one
CARDINAL
very difficult condition . There could be no discussion for now about who will have what status in
Jerusalem
GPE
.
Palestinians
NORP
do n't like it . In
Bethlehem
GPE
, where
Christians
NORP
believe
Jesus
PERSON
was born ,
Christmas
DATE
plans have been scaled back because of the violence . Good
evening
TIME
, everyone . We begin
tonight
TIME
with a couple of urgent questions for the government . There 's a man on trial in
New York
GPE
for bombing the
American
NORP
embassy in
Kenya
GPE
two years ago
DATE
. The
FBI
ORG
says when they questioned him , he told them of another plot to bomb an
American
NORP
ship in
Yemen
GPE
, where
the " USS Cole
PRODUCT
" was ultimately attacked . Question one , did the
FBI
ORG
make it clear what the man had told them ?
Question
two
CARDINAL
, did the
Pentagon
ORG
and the
CIA
ORG
get the message and do nothing about it ? Here 's your national correspondent ,
John M Wethy
PERSON
. In
the days
DATE
after the bombing of the
American
NORP
embassy in
Nairobi
GPE
,
Mohammed Al - owhali
PERSON
was arrested by
Kenyan
NORP
authorities and interrogated by the
FBI
ORG
. He told the
FBI
ORG
he participated in the attack under direction of terrorist leader
Osama Bin Laden
PERSON
.
ABC News
ORG
has learned he also provided details of a plan to attack an
American
NORP
warship in
Yemen
GPE
. Al - owhali said it would be a rocket attack , conducted by a
Bin Laden
PERSON
terrorist cell , and it would come in
the next few months
DATE
.
The next morning
TIME
,
August 1998
DATE
, the
FBI
ORG
sent out a classified message , under Director
Louis Freeh 's
PERSON
name , warning of a plot to attack a
U.S. Navy
ORG
ship in
Yemen
GPE
. The
FBI
ORG
message went to
three
CARDINAL
Pentagon
ORG
agencies , and as a result , the visit of
one
CARDINAL
American
NORP
warship to
Yemen
GPE
was canceled . The warning came as General
Anthony Zinni
PERSON
was finalizing an agreement for refueling ships in the
Yemeni
NORP
port of
Aden
GPE
. It apparently left no lasting impression .
Zinni
PERSON
testifying after the attack on
the " USS Cole
PRODUCT
" --
Aden
GPE
never had a specific terrorist threat . All the other ports that have been mentioned here that we should have considered as options have had specific threats . So what happened to the
FBI
ORG
warning ?
CIA
ORG
officials say they never received it .
FBI
ORG
officials say they did copy the
CIA
ORG
.
Pentagon
ORG
officials say they got the warning , but had no idea the source was such a well - connected insider within
Bin Laden 's
PERSON
organization . This raises a fundamental question -- if the message had been more clearly communicated and understood , would
American
NORP
lives have been saved ?
John M Wethy
PERSON
,
ABC News
ORG
, the
Pentagon
ORG
, still looking for answers . The
Indonesian
NORP
billionaire
James Riady
PERSON
has agreed to pay
$ 8.5 million
MONEY
and plead guilty to illegally donating money for
Bill Clinton 's
PERSON
1992
DATE
presidential campaign .
He admits he was trying to influence
American
NORP
policy on
China
GPE
.
Tomorrow
DATE
's summit meeting will bring
Ehud Barak
PERSON
and
Yasser Arafat
PERSON
to the resort city of
Sharm El - eikh
GPE
. Getting both to attend was not an easy task . The last thing President
Clinton
PERSON
did
today
DATE
before heading to the
Mideast
LOC
is go to church -- appropriate , perhaps , given the enormity of the task he and his national security team face in
the days
DATE
ahead . We do have to try to reduce the violee and take a turn back for a period of calmness so that we can move back to a peace process , but even if the violence subsides ,
Israelis
NORP
and
Palestinians
NORP
will still have to deal with an open wound -- a scar so long and so deep from
these last two weeks
DATE
, it may be
years
DATE
before there is a real effort at talking peace again . Both sides have almost stepped back
six years
DATE
in terms of their statements and attitudes ,
six years
DATE
or more -- before the Oslo accords , when the
Israelis
NORP
promised land and the
Palestinians
NORP
promised security .
Today
DATE
there is only finger pointing .
Arafat
PERSON
deliberately launched it in order to attract the attention of the world by paying with the blood of his own people . I urge Mr.
Barak
PERSON
to lift the siege of
Palestinians
NORP
, to speak to the
Palestinians
NORP
as its neighbors because they are his neighbors .
The
Palestinians
NORP
clearly face the greatest pressure in this summit , since the
Israelis
NORP
are not the only ones blaming them for the outbreak of violence . I think we all know that
Arafat
PERSON
is in charge of
the Palestinian Authority
ORG
. He has the responsibility for controlling the violence . But it may not be so easy for
Arafat
PERSON
.
Today
DATE
,
thousands
CARDINAL
of
Palestinians
NORP
are calling for continued fighting .
Half
CARDINAL
of the
Palestinian
NORP
population is under the age of
14
CARDINAL
and many have been influenced by military factions like
Hamas
ORG
and
Hezbollah
ORG
-- not by
Arafat
PERSON
. When you talk about
Arafat
PERSON
and the people around him , you have to understand how young this population really is -- how volatile , how close to exploding it really is . Almost no one seems optimistic about the future of the
Mideast
LOC
. That 's the heartbreak of this region says
one
CARDINAL
State Department
ORG
official . Whenever you take a step forward , you are bound to be pushed way back .
Martha Raddatz
PERSON
,
ABC News
ORG
,
the State Department
ORG
. We are going to take " a closer look " at the great
Wind Cave in South Dakota
WORK_OF_ART
. No easy matter . We know caving is a popular pasttime for some
Americans
NORP
, a horrifying thought for others , especially anyone prone to claustrophobia . We asked
Judy Muller
PERSON
if she would like to do the story of a fascinating man . She took a deep breath and said , okay . This wild landscape in
South Dakota
GPE
may evoke images of the frontier
West
LOC
, but the real frontier is far beneath . Elevation plus
11
CARDINAL
. The real pioneers are men like
John Sheltons
PERSON
who explore underground caves .
The most fascinating is the maze known as
Wind Cave
PERSON
. When you find one where no one has been there , you are the
first
ORDINAL
person , the adrenaline is phenomenal . He
first
ORDINAL
came here as a tourist
30 years ago
DATE
. He offered to map it for
the Park Service
ORG
. I thought would take
a week
DATE
or
two
CARDINAL
. It 's now
30 years
DATE
down the road . I 'm no closer to completing the agreement . The cave is seemingly endless .
3 miles
QUANTITY
of the cave have been surveyed , every inch logged by hand , then fed into a computer which plots every nook and cranny . We 're only representing
about 5 %
PERCENT
of the known volume that could possibly be here .
95 %
PERCENT
of the cave is unmapped ? Yes . The
first
ORDINAL
recorded discovery of the cave was in
1881
DATE
. A cowboy hunting in the area heard the sound of rushing wind . He followed it to this narrow opening . The wind was so strong , or so the story goes , that it blew his hat off his head . Since then , many visitors have been drawn into this world of crystals , fossils and calcite formations known as forecast work and popcorn and rarest of all , fox work . Each new discovery means heading down another tight , dark hall . Your stomach is against the floor and your back is against the wall . As we crawled along , we found an item left by earlier explorers .
A
103 - year - old
DATE
newspaper . The ultimate payoff is when they find a new chamber . The knowledge that our lights are the
first
ORDINAL
to light it up , our footprints were the
first
ORDINAL
, our eyes were
first
ORDINAL
to see it . He calls it addictive . You get withdrawal . I want to find more , something bigger or deeper . He no longer expects to see the end of the cave in his lifetime . That , he says , is just fine with him .
Judy Muller
PERSON
,
ABC News
ORG
, Wind Cave National Park . Some camera team as well .
Back to
the Middle East
LOC
tonight
TIME
. the truce brokered by President
Clinton
PERSON
between
Israelis
NORP
and
Palestinians
NORP
allegedly is in tatters .
Palestinians
NORP
now talking about a battle for independence .
Israel
GPE
says it may abandon the peace negotiations altogether .
Nine
CARDINAL
Palestinians
NORP
were killed
today
DATE
.
More than 70
CARDINAL
people have been wounded , mostly
Palestinians
NORP
, but also several
Israeli
NORP
soldiers .
ABC
ORG
's
Bob Woodruff
PERSON
is in the
Palestinian
NORP
territories
tonight
TIME
. Violence ripped through almost every major
Palestinian
NORP
town
today
DATE
. The worst was in
Nablus
GPE
.
Four
CARDINAL
Palestinians
NORP
were shot and killed . In
Ramallah
GPE
,
thousands
CARDINAL
of
Palestinians
NORP
rushed the
Israeli
NORP
checkpoint , then faced down
Israeli
NORP
guns . From
Hebron
GPE
to
Gaza
GPE
, the wounded were carried off so fast it was difficult to count them . As is so often the case , much of the trouble started with funerals that escalated into fury . Most significant , demonstrators who had been throwing stones
this week
DATE
,
today
DATE
turned to gasoline bombs .
Israelis
NORP
who had been firing rubber bullets stepped up their use of real ones . This was supposed to be
the day
DATE
the truce went into effect , when both sides would call off the violence , but that clearly has not happened , and here in the streets , peace seems very unlikely .
Tonight
TIME
on
Israeli
NORP
television , Prime Minister
Barak
PERSON
said we can not go on as if nothing happened , and if the demonstrations do n't stop ,
Barak
PERSON
's spokesman said
Israel
GPE
will continue to use live ammunition . They leave no other way for us but to respond with fire , we 'll have to do this .
Palestinian
NORP
leaders said their people no longer want a cease - fire , they want their own country .
We are under occupation and subjugation . The question should be what the
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
are they still doing there
eight years
DATE
after the peace process began . It is one of the major questions that was supposed to be addressed after the stoning and shooting had stopped . It certainly has not stopped . Not yet .
Bob Woodruff
PERSON
,
ABC News
ORG
,
Ramallah
GPE
. There is other news
tonight
TIME
overseas and at home . While all this is going on , Mr.
Clinton
PERSON
is overseas . President
Clinton
PERSON
was in
Northern Ireland
GPE
when he heard
the Supreme Court
ORG
decision .
He talked to
Al Gore
PERSON
on the phone from
Belfast
GPE
. This is Mr.
Clinton
PERSON
's
third
ORDINAL
visit to
Northern Ireland
GPE
, and
the Irish Republic
GPE
to do what he can to generate a lasting peace . We have a major development to report
tonight
TIME
involving the crash of that
Singapore Airlines
ORG
747
PRODUCT
in
Taiwan
GPE
this week
DATE
.
Taiwanese
NORP
officials
thousand
DATE
now say . They confirm the pilot made a wrong turn , simply down the wrong runway . Correspondent
Ned Colt
PERSON
has our report .
Tonight
TIME
it appears
at least 82
CARDINAL
are dead from what may have been a wrong turn . Sources close to the investigation tell
NBC News
ORG
that
Singapore Airlines
ORG
flight
6
CARDINAL
tried to take off on a runway closed for repairs . She crash site
today
DATE
, the trail of evidence on the closed runway .
Chunks of wreckage , fuselage , stretching in a straight line for
hundreds of yards
QUANTITY
. Twisted overturned construction equipment . This is what the
747
PRODUCT
slammed into
Tuesday
DATE
night
TIME
in a blinding rain storm .
Today
DATE
investigators say the pilot had confirmed with the control tower moments before taking off he had turned onto the correct runway but pilots behind him say he turned onto the wrong runway . They say the plane took off , clicking the construction equipment , slamming into the ground and then breaking up . As the plane was taking off this passenger noticed she did n't see any runway lights . I used to see the lights going by and I looked out and said it 's pitch black out here . Reporter
Lee
PERSON
, flying in from
California
GPE
, unsure if his wife was alive ,
today
DATE
, identifying his remains , and
tonight
TIME
survivor
John Diaz
PERSON
begins the long trip home to
California
GPE
. I just want to get home , never been so ready to get back to
the United States
GPE
. His flight number a reminder
Singapore Airlines 006
ORG
, the same flight he survived
Tuesday
DATE
night .
Gregg Jarrett
PERSON
, they did get a unanimous court for this decision . Absolutely ,
Brian
PERSON
. It was very stern , very direct and it left no question , I think , in the minds of anybody that this court unanimously believes that certification should include the manual recount , and that is a clear victory for Vice President
Al Gore
PERSON
. The language here , really leaves no doubt . The right of the people to cast their vote , the court said , is paramount . The amended certifications must be accepted by
November 26
DATE
. The reason they are picking that particular day is it allows ,
Brian
PERSON
, enough time for the aggrieved party , the losing party to file within
10 days
DATE
a contest of the certification and that still allows enough time for the contest to be litigated through the courts primarily the circuit court and back to
the Supreme Court
ORG
if necessary and still meet the
December 12
DATE
deadline for the
Electoral College
ORG
vote here . Now ,
Greg
PERSON
, the only question that means anything at
this hour
TIME
. We know their view is the hand counts should now be included .
Will it put
Al Gore
PERSON
over the top in the race to match and exceed the votes of
George W. Bush
PERSON
? It very well could , although , I must say that the
Gore
PERSON
campaign has been somewhat disappointed by the number of votes they have not received thus far in the counties that are undertaking the manual recounts ,
Brian
PERSON
, but a lot of hand counts still must be tallied . We are also including the undervotes of
10,000
CARDINAL
in
Palm Beach
GPE
and junt votes of
10,000
CARDINAL
in
Miami - Dade
GPE
as well . Keep in mind , those were not registered by the computers because they either had a hanging chad or dimpled chad . Those must be gone over by hand by each respective canvassing board . So there are a lot of votes remaining there . This is a
Gore
PERSON
campaign to
the White House
ORG
. Greg , just a logistic question , How long is it going take you to get the opinion run to you from the building behind you ? I would say we should have it here in
the next five minutes
DATE
. It depends how quickly the line moves .
We have
two
CARDINAL
producers , I believe , near the front of the line . It how quickly they get handed . It reversed the
two
CARDINAL
orders of the earlier trial court ,
Circuit Court
ORG
Judge
Terry Lewis
PERSON
. The bottom line , this court rules unanimously the right of the people to have the votes counted is paramount , thus , the amended certifications to include the hand counts must be accepted by
November 26
DATE
. In fact , it seemed to have some language here . In fact ,
Brian
PERSON
I do have it handed to me now . Let me take a the .
Brian
PERSON
, if for some reason the Secretary of
State
ORG
would n't accept by the
26th
ORDINAL
, the certification , it could be certified elsewhere .
Gregg Jarrett
PERSON
. I should point out , he is a former lawyer himself and so can help put this into
English
LANGUAGE
.
Greg , go ahead , if you come to a passage we should hear . I 'm flipping through the summary of enacts because that is not important . The summary of facts . You flag us when you come to the
first
ORDINAL
portion we should hear aloud . And not far from
Lebanon
GPE
, a source at the
Syrian
NORP
interior ministry said that the military commander of
the Tawhid Wal Jihad Organization
ORG
in
Syria
GPE
blew himself up after being chased by the security forces at the
Jdeidet Yabus
PERSON
border crossing . The source said that the man , called
Omar Abdullah
PERSON
, also known as
Omar Hamra
PERSON
, was carrying
nine
CARDINAL
, uh , forged identity documents . The statement of the
Syrian
NORP
interior ministry said that
Omar Abdullah
PERSON
,
28 years old
DATE
, was
first
ORDINAL
to open fire with a pistol in his possession , on security men who were suspicious of his identity . The young man , who leads the armed wing of
the Tawhid Wal Jihad Organization
ORG
, tried to escape but the security forces surrounded him , and he had no alternative , either to surrender or to commit suicide , so he chose the latter by detonating an explosive belt he had tied around his waist . In addition to the terrorist , as the authorities call him ,
two
CARDINAL
Syrian
NORP
security men were injured .
These incidents took place on the
Syrian
NORP
side of the border with
Lebanon
GPE
at the
Jdeidet Yabus
PERSON
crossing point , at a distance of
a few kilometers
QUANTITY
from the
Masnaa
PERSON
post on the other side of the border . The official version says that
Omar Abdullah
PERSON
, also known as
Omar Hamra
PERSON
, was carrying
nine
CARDINAL
different , forged identity documents . It is not known whether he succeeded in moving around using them in the past or if this was the
first
ORDINAL
time he tried this dangerous journey . The man was wanted by
the Syrian Security Services
ORG
because of his connection with an organization they describe as extremist , in reference to
the Tawhid Wal Jihad
ORG
which the authorities consider a twin of
the Jund Al - Shaab Organization
ORG
. This organization , which was founded in
Afghanistan
GPE
by
Islamists
NORP
from
Syria
GPE
,
Palestine
GPE
and
Jordan
GPE
, is blamed for a number of incidents that have taken place in the country in
the past two years
DATE
. An attempt to attack the
American
NORP
Embassy
last September
DATE
was foiled by
the Security Services
ORG
and led to the death of
five
CARDINAL
people , including
four
CARDINAL
of the attackers .
The Security Services
ORG
also carried out what they call preemptive attacks in each of the following : Daff Al - Shawk in the capital , in
Aleppo
GPE
, and
Khasham
PERSON
in the
Al - Hasakah Governorate
PERSON
, in the north of the country . They also clashed extensively with gunmen in
Hama
GPE
, the city that is famous for the killing of
thousands
CARDINAL
of its people in
1982
DATE
, when the authorities were engaged in quelling the
Islamist
NORP
movement there .
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
GPE
expressed its support for the principle of fair geographic representation in
the United Nations Security Council
ORG
, in both its permanent and non-permanent memberships .
It expressed the view that the purpose of developing the
Security Council
ORG
structure should be to strengthen the capabilities of the council to perform its role in an effective way , to achieve the desired objective of the international community in maintaining international peace and security . This came in the
Kingdom
GPE
's speech before
the General Assembly
ORG
, in the
sixty - first
CARDINAL
session on articles
ten and one hundred and eleven
DATE
, regarding
the Security Council 's
ORG
decision on the issue of fair representation in
the Security Council
ORG
, increasing the number of its members and the related issues , which His
Royal Highness
ORG
Prince Mishal
Bin Abdallah Bin Abd - al - Aziz
PERSON
, Minister
Plenipotentiary
PERSON
in
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
ORG
, gave
yesterday
DATE
before the council . His
Highness
ORG
said that
the Kingdom confirms
ORG
the extreme importance it places on
the Security Council 's
ORG
performance of its role and the full responsibility assigned to it to preserve security and peace in an effective way in all regions of the world . His
Highness
ORG
said that
the Kingdom at
GPE
the same time expresses its disappointment at the effect of the resolutions and work procedures of the council and its double standard policy , which has prevailed in some of its works , especially those related to some security and peace cases in
the Middle East
LOC
region . His Highness added that the whole world watched the
Israeli
NORP
assaults on
Lebanon
GPE
and on
Palestinian
NORP
lands in a full - scale war aimed at the deliberate destruction of the infrastructure , and violations of human and national rights that targeted innocent civilians with assassination , detention and torture without any consideration for international agreements and treaties or humanitarian considerations .
Philippine
NORP
President
Gloria Arroyo
PERSON
has declared that the
Philippines
GPE
is a disaster - stricken country because of the hurricane which hit the country
last Thursday
DATE
. At the same time , devastated villages began to bury their victims as officials attempted to obtain food and water supplies . Rescue teams continued search operations for more bodies under the volcanic rubble , rocks and mud amidst predictions that the death toll would rise to
around 700
CARDINAL
. This is how the villages looked , buried by the mud , flood and rain waters which accompanied the destructive hurricane that swept across broad expanses of the eastern
Philippines
GPE
.
At the same time , the country began a relief operation to reach the victims of the natural disaster which left behind around
700
CARDINAL
dead and
thousands
CARDINAL
of homeless , injured and missing people . The country 's president
Gloria Arroyo
PERSON
Macapagal declared the
Philippines
GPE
a disaster - stricken country entitled to aid . She called on the countries of the world and on international relief organizations to quickly send convoys of humanitarian aid which include medical and food aid and the necessary equipment to extricate bodies buried by mud under the rubble of their homes in poor villages . This comes as the disaster - stricken villages , as a result of the mudslides in the east
Philippines
GPE
, began to bury their dead in a painful picture which reminded the world of the tsunami that struck the coasts of
Asia
LOC
at
the beginning of last year
DATE
. Rescue teams continued their search operations for more bodies under the volcanic debris , rocks and mud at the foot of Mayon volcano in the
Albay
ORG
province at a distance of
330 kilometers
QUANTITY
south of the capital
Manila
GPE
. For its part ,
the National Disaster Coordinating Council
ORG
confirmed that
at least 285
CARDINAL
people had been killed in the province of
Albay
ORG
, the majority of their deaths caused by mudslides resulting from
Hurricane Durian
EVENT
. At the same time ,
at least 292
CARDINAL
people are still amongst the missing and it is feared that they may have died as well . The council said that
Hurricane Durian
EVENT
which hit the east
Philippines
GPE
coast
last Thursday
DATE
with a maximum wind speed of
195 kilometers per hour
QUANTITY
caused the deaths of
18
CARDINAL
other people in the provinces of
Camarine Sur , Catanduanes
PERSON
,
Quezon
GPE
and
Oriental
NORP
Mindoro . A local
Red Cross
ORG
official in
Albay
ORG
said that statistics suggested that the number of missing people could reach
779
CARDINAL
people . Experts said that the torrential rain which accompanied
Hurricane Durian
EVENT
stirred up volcanic ash sediments on the upper slopes of
Mount Mayon
LOC
causing severe mudslides which buried the surrounding areas .
Hurricane Durian
EVENT
is still leaving more victims and destruction in its path . The hurricane caused the deaths of around
1200
CARDINAL
people in the
Philippines
GPE
and
dozens
CARDINAL
in
Vietnam
GPE
while authorities in the disaster - stricken areas fear an exacerbation of the situation and an increase in the number of victims of the sweeping hurricane . From here
Hurricane Durian
EVENT
swept over southern
Vietnam
GPE
, leaving no less than 37 people dead after killing over
1200
CARDINAL
people in the
Philippines
GPE
. The hurricane was accompanied by winds at a speed of
120 kilometers an hour
QUANTITY
which pushed the
Vietnamese
NORP
authorities to evacuate
3500
CARDINAL
people from different areas . The authorities fear the toll will be worse in this flat region exposed to the winds . On the island of Fukio , winds destroyed
hundreds
CARDINAL
of boats moored off the shore , tore the roofs off houses and pulled up electricity poles as well as cutting off some roads .
8000
CARDINAL
people were evacuated from
Ho Chi Minh City
PERSON
. In spite of the deaths left in the wake of the hurricane , material losses and the loss of roofs from houses , life quickly returned to the streets of
Vietnam
GPE
where some shops opened and the roads teemed with bicycles , the well - known means of transportation there . Tropical
Hurricane Durian
EVENT
cut off electricity at the beginning and sank
over 800
CARDINAL
boats along the southern coast of
Vietnam
GPE
until the storm changed course suddenly to head for south - west
Vietnam
GPE
.
The National Search and Rescue Committee
ORG
said that telephone and electricity lines had been cut off and roads closed because of falling trees in the village of
Fong Tao
PERSON
to the east of
Ho Chi Minh City
PERSON
. The number of people affected by the storm in
three
CARDINAL
provinces was
at least 50,000
CARDINAL
. So in
just a few seconds
TIME
,
Hurricane Durian
EVENT
transformed
more than one
CARDINAL
province into ruins and carried away dear ones , leaving behind lakes of water , mud , destruction and sorrow . Clashes continued
today
DATE
in
the West Bank
GPE
and
Gaza
GPE
.
Palestinian
NORP
gunmen fired on an
Israeli
NORP
car killing the driver .
Earlier today
TIME
Israeli
NORP
soldiers guarding a
Jewish
NORP
settlement shot and killed a
Palestinian
NORP
man who was later identified as an intelligence officer .
The Israeli Army
ORG
said the man had been approaching the guard post in a suspicious manner . Former
U.S.
GPE
representative
Sidney Yates
PERSON
has died .
When he retired
last year
DATE
, he was the oldest and longest serving member of the house .
NPR
ORG
's
Sheryl Corley
ORG
reports from
Chicago
GPE
.
Sidney Yates
PERSON
was
first
ORDINAL
elected to the
U.S.
GPE
house in
1948
DATE
, when
Harry Truman
PERSON
was President and for
more than 4 decades
DATE
he trounced every challenger to face him in congressional election . He sat out
1
CARDINAL
term after losing a
U.S Senate
ORG
race in
the 1960s
DATE
, but for
24
CARDINAL
terms , Yates represented
Chicago
GPE
's northern lake front and northern suburbs . The congressman was known as a fervent liberal and supporter of the arts and he was noted for his success in getting
congress
ORG
to finance for national endowment for the art . In
1993
DATE
, Yates was awarded a Presidential Citizen 's Medal for his efforts . Yates was born in
Chicago
GPE
and he was one of the few politicians who successfully walked the tight rope between the
Chicago
GPE
machine and its independent critics . He died
yesterday
DATE
of renal failure and complications from pneumonia .
Sheryl Corley
ORG
,
NPR news
ORG
,
Chicago
GPE
.
President
Clinton
PERSON
has pardoned a former leading member of
the House of Representatives
ORG
convicted of corruption charges in
1996
DATE
. Former Chairman of
the House Ways and Means Committee
ORG
Dan Rostenkowski
PERSON
was among
59
CARDINAL
convicted criminals pardoned by the President . He was sentenced to
17 months
DATE
in prison and fined
100,000 dollars
MONEY
after pleading guilty to mail fraud .
Clinton
PERSON
is also considering clemency for several other convicted criminals .
BBC News
ORG
for
The World
ORG
. In
London
GPE
, I am
James Cowling
PERSON
. With this
month
DATE
's ouster of strongman
Slobodan Milosevic
PERSON
,
Yugoslavia
GPE
is rapidly joining the international community .
Today
DATE
, the country was admitted into an international
Balkan
NORP
development program .
Belgrade
GPE
now hopes to join
the United Nations
ORG
,
the International Monetary Fund
ORG
and
the World Bank
ORG
.
At home , President
Vojislav Kostunica
PERSON
says that he intends to promote democracy and free speech , but
Kostunica
PERSON
just might have
second
ORDINAL
thoughts , once a theater group that roasted his predecessor over the coals starts turning him on a spit . The
World
ORG
's
Nened Chebeck
PERSON
reports from the
Yugoslav
NORP
capital .
These days
DATE
at almost every street corner in central
Belgrade
GPE
, there is a stall selling compact discs with protest songs against the former regime , and the most popular tune blaring out of the speakers goes like this , " attention , attention , last train for
Serbia
GPE
via day stop
Kosovo
GPE
and
The Hague
GPE
is departing with a
ten hour
TIME
delay . It 's the latest hit by the satirical theater called " Index " . They started off
20 years ago
DATE
in a local radio station and became an enormous success on stage and not just here in
Serbia
GPE
. They toured the world and performed wherever there is an emigrant community from the former
Yugoslavia
GPE
scattered by the wars here , from
Australia
GPE
to
New York
GPE
where Index will be returning in
late November
DATE
. This song is from their latest play , The Last Train for
Serbia
GPE
, which was recorded on
the day
DATE
protestors stormed the federal parliament in
Belgrade
GPE
and the main television stations . The song speaks of panic in the household of
Slobodan Milosevic
PERSON
. Even before the former President conceded defeat , the Index Theater performed live on an improvised stage outside the parliament , in front of a crowd of
some 300,000
CARDINAL
people . Actor
Drugewbo Unitich
PERSON
tells how the show began .
The
first
ORDINAL
thing that I told them was please let us close our eyes and just listen . When they did that and I saw them and I told them in a voice of
Milosevic
PERSON
, " Ladies and gentleman , I am definitely finished . "
Only 3
CARDINAL
or 4 hours after that he appeared on television and said something very similar to that .
Yubitrich
GPE
is
one
CARDINAL
of
Belgrade
GPE
's most popular actors and he owes it to his skilful portrayal of
Slobodan Milosevic
PERSON
. Getting into
Milosevic
PERSON
's shoes even on stage , was quite a temptation says
Yubitrich
GPE
. I always felt when I enter his person , Okay , that I can do whatever I want and I always molested our fellow players you know . So being
Milosevic
PERSON
is something which I can compare to taking a dangerous drug . But with
Milosevic
PERSON
out of the way , what next for
Serbia
GPE
's most popular satirical group ?
Writer Vojislav Jonetic
PERSON
says he is confident the new
Yugoslav
NORP
government will provide plenty of fresh material . We will have plenty of politicians , which we can play .
We will have plenty of idiotic situations in
Serbian
NORP
politics . Political satirical theater is something which you can apply best to the societies , which are in some kind of crisis . We are still in crisis and we will be I think for a while , but the current crisis
Jonetic
NORP
hopes will at least be one where government critics will not be branded as traitors and be banned from public performances . Index
Theater
PERSON
is planning a huge comeback now with a series of shows in
Belgrade
GPE
, but even though
Milosevic
PERSON
is under de facto house arrest in
Belgrade
GPE
, he is very much present on the repertoire of political humors , says his impersonator ,
Dragewbo Yubitrich
PERSON
. I would like to share
one
CARDINAL
joke with the listeners of
The World
ORG
. It 's
the year of 2004
DATE
. In
Serbia
GPE
it is
57th
ORDINAL
round of elections from
September 2000
DATE
and
Slobodan Milosevic
PERSON
appears on
national tv
ORG
and says , " I want to greet you as your new President , my name is
Vojislav Kostunica
PERSON
" .
Yubitrich
PERSON
says , he has already set his sights on the new
Yugoslav
NORP
President ,
Kostunica
PERSON
and will most likely be impersonating him in the future . He is not as easy to make fun of yet
Yubitritch
PERSON
says , unlike
Milosevic
PERSON
, but that does n't mean he will escape the scrutiny and sharp wits of Index Theater . For
The World
ORG
, this is
Nenad Chebeck
PERSON
in
Belgrade
GPE
.
In
Haiti
GPE
,
Jean - Bertrand Aristide
PERSON
has been declared the winner in
last Sunday 's
DATE
controversial presidential election .
NPR
ORG
's
Jerry Hadden
PERSON
reports . Former President
Aristide
PERSON
won with
92 percent
PERCENT
of the vote according to
Haitian
NORP
election officials . The sweeping victory was expected since Aristide ran virtually unopposed . Opposition candidates boycotted the vote citing tainted legislative elections
last May
DATE
. Aristide was elected President for
the first time ten years ago
DATE
and served
just months
DATE
before a military coup sent him into exile in
the United States
GPE
. He now faces huge obstacles as
Haiti
GPE
's leader . His country is the poorest in the hemisphere and much of the world community has shunned him . On
Wednesday
DATE
UN
ORG
Secretary General
Kofi Annan
PERSON
called on his organization to close its mission in
Haiti
GPE
citing the unstable political climate .
Though a spate of pre-election violence kept some
Haitians
NORP
away from the polls on
Sunday
DATE
, the voting itself went relatively smoothly .
Jerry Hadden
PERSON
,
NPR News
ORG
.
China
GPE
released a government policy paper
today
DATE
about population and development . The paper said
Beijing
GPE
hopes to cap its population at
1.6 billion
CARDINAL
by
the year 2050
DATE
.
NPR
ORG
's
Rob Gifford
PERSON
reports from the
Chinese
NORP
capital . The
Chinese
NORP
government
today
DATE
credited the
one
CARDINAL
child policy with dramatically improving the quality of life for citizens of the world 's most populous nation .
China
GPE
's population currently stands at
1.26 billion
CARDINAL
, still the largest in the world , but the paper says that if it were n't for the
one
CARDINAL
child policy that figure would be
300 million
CARDINAL
higher . The white paper says the economy still faces a daunting challenge coping with the net
annual
DATE
increase of
10 million
CARDINAL
people over
the next decade
DATE
. At the same time , it says ,
China
GPE
will grapple with problems associated with a rapidly aging population and lack of an extensive social security system .
Rob Gifford
PERSON
,
NPR News
ORG
,
Beijing
GPE
. In what may have been a ripple effect of the
Middle East
LOC
crisis , an explosion
today
DATE
killed
at least four
CARDINAL
sailors on a
US Navy
ORG
destroyer in the
Yemeni
NORP
port of
Aden
GPE
.
American
NORP
investigators are going to the scene but in
Washington
GPE
at
the White House
FAC
, the
Pentagon
ORG
and
the State Department
ORG
,
US
GPE
officials are already expressing suspicions that
today
DATE
's explosion was an act of terrorism . The
World
ORG
's
Clark Boyd
PERSON
reports . The blast , which occurred
just after noon
TIME
local time in
Yemen
GPE
, ripped a
20 x 40 foot
QUANTITY
gash in
the USS Cole
PRODUCT
, a state - of - the - art destroyer that had stopped in
Aden
GPE
to refuel before joining the carrier
George Washington
PERSON
in
the Persian Gulf
LOC
. Speaking at the
Cole
PRODUCT
's home base in
Norfolk
GPE
,
Virginia
GPE
, Admiral
John Foley
PERSON
said that the
Navy
ORG
is investigating the incident . I do n't know whether it was terrorism or not . It was an act of certainly a severe belligerence but we do n't know the source , nor can I comment any further on that . But in
Washington
GPE
,
Pentagon
ORG
officials went further saying that they had every reason to suspect that the blast was caused by terrorists .
The officials said that reports from the scene , including
one
CARDINAL
from an
Army
ORG
officer working in
Aden Harbor
FAC
, suggested that a small rubber craft that was helping the
Cole
PRODUCT
dock came alongside the destroyer and caused the blast . Many , including retired Admiral
Eugene Carroll
PERSON
, are suspicious that the small boat may have been loaded with high - power explosives and that the attack was planned . That craft that approached the
Cole
PRODUCT
is a rubber boat , not a big craft , but they would have had to pack it fully with explosives to do the amount of damage that they did to the
Cole
PRODUCT
and that certainly would have taken time to get that put together . While both the
Pentagon
ORG
and
the Justice Department
ORG
today
DATE
dispatched teams of experts to
Yemen
GPE
to investigate the explosion , Secretary of
State
ORG
Madeleine Albright
PERSON
urged caution saying it was too early to jump to any conclusions . Still , she promised that
the United States
GPE
would take appropriate action if terrorists were found to be behind the blast , a sentiment echoed later in
the day
DATE
by President
Clinton
PERSON
. If , as it now appears , this was an act of terrorism , it was a despicable and cowardly act . We will find out who is responsible and hold them accountable . If their intention was to deter us from our mission of promoting peace and security in
the Middle East
LOC
, they will fail utterly . For some terrorism experts
today
DATE
's attack , which occurred against the backdrop of intense clashes between
Palestinians
NORP
and
Israelis
NORP
in
the Middle East
LOC
, has an eerily familiar ring to it .
Bruce Hoffman
PERSON
is the director of
the Rand Corporation 's
ORG
Washington
GPE
office .
We have seen often in the past how violence and conflict and tensions in
the Middle East
LOC
often embroil
the United States
GPE
.
One
CARDINAL
only has to recall the bombing of the
US
GPE
Marine barracks in
Lebanon
GPE
in
1983
DATE
, also
a month
DATE
before presidential election , also at a time when
Israel
GPE
was involving suitable ferment at that point in
Lebanon
GPE
now with the
Palestinians
NORP
, where
the United States
GPE
was also attempting actively to provide some stabilizing influence and unfortunately and tragically got caught up in the maelstrom and that seems to be the salient fact of this attack . And if this attack turns out to be the work of terrorists ,
Hoffman
PERSON
says it would signal a dangerous new trend . Maritime or marine - borne terrorist attacks are actually quite rare . That being said it could well be the beginning of a new pattern . We have made it far more difficult , appropriately so , for terrorists to attack our ground forces in
the Arabian Peninsula
LOC
. So , I think terrorists prevented from attacking their targets using their more conventional means ' truck bombs ' have merely adjusted their tactics slightly and obviously they have been successful with it
today
DATE
. On
Yemeni
NORP
TV
today
DATE
the country 's President expressed his heart - felt condolences to those who were killed and injured , but denied that the explosion on board the
cole
PRODUCT
was caused by terrorists , although , admits
Mohammed Al - Qadhi
PERSON
, editor of
the Yemen Observer
ORG
newspaper in the capital
Sana
PERSON
,
anti-American
NORP
sentiment has been running high in
Yemen
GPE
because of events in
the Middle East
LOC
. The people now in the streets are gathering because they feel that not just as
Arabs
NORP
, as human beings , that what is happening in
Palestine
GPE
is not humanitarian . Regarding
the United States '
GPE
attitude in this regard , we find that
the United States
GPE
until now are supporting
Israel
GPE
.
The people here feel that
United States
GPE
should do something . With tensions running high throughout
the Middle East
LOC
,
today
DATE
's incident off the coast of
Yemen
GPE
serves as a warning .
US
GPE
armed forces and diplomatic personnel might be on high alert for sometime to come . For
The World
ORG
this is
Clark Boyd
PERSON
. This is
The World
ORG
, I am
Lisa Mullins
PERSON
. Up next a global hip - hop beat laid down in
New York
GPE
and danced to in the
West African
NORP
nation of
Senegal
GPE
. The
World
ORG
's
Marco Warman
PERSON
has
today
DATE
's musical finale . Imagine trying to translate the lyrics of
the Sugar Hill Gang 's
FAC
notorious rap classic ,
Rapper
PERSON
's
Delight
PERSON
. Fortunately for rap fans in the
Senegalese
NORP
capital ,
Dakar
PERSON
translating these tunes is n't necessary .
The city has its own homegrown hip - hop scene . It is a hip - hop but
African
NORP
hip - hop with
African
NORP
instruments , you know ,
African
NORP
chant , traditional sounds . That is
Amidu Barry
PERSON
,
one half
CARDINAL
of the duo
Positive Black Soul
EVENT
or
PBS
ORG
. They are the doyens of
Dakar
PERSON
's hip - hop scene ,
the Sugar Hill Gang of Senegal
FAC
if you will . Positive Black Soul sings in
Senegal
PERSON
's main language
Wolof
PERSON
but if the music sounds like it comes straight out of the
Bronx
GPE
, well , you are not far off .
PBS
ORG
produce their albums in
New York
GPE
. Lead singer
Amidu Berry
PERSON
says
New York
GPE
producers make hip - hop in any language come out sounding right . They know how to make a hip - hop record sound good . They know the sound of hip - hop , you know , and they have got the equipment and the engineers and they know how to handle it . But Positive Black Soul 's music is
first
ORDINAL
and foremost
Senegalese
NORP
music .
When
American
NORP
saxophonist
David Murray
PERSON
recorded his acclaimed afrocentric jazz album , Fo Juke Review in Dakar , he recruited
Amidu Berry
PERSON
and
DJ Awadi
PERSON
from
PBS
ORG
to show what an edge
West African
NORP
music can really have . When
Awadi
PERSON
and
Barry
PERSON
performed , they managed simultaneously to bathe in the group of
American
NORP
hip - hop and they keep a clear sense that they are from
Senegal
GPE
. This connection to national and musical identities results partly from the fact that many
Senegalese
NORP
artists want to stay in
Senegal
GPE
to live and work says
PBS
ORG
singer
Tidia Awadi
PERSON
. It is because they know they have the inspiration in their country . I think everybody want to stay in his country , want to die in his country . If you can stay and make it happen , the place where you was born , where you grew up then try to make it there . It 's possible .
Senegalese
NORP
rappers are also identified by what they say in their tracks . Western hip - hop lyrics often revolve around the accumulation of material wealth and throwing parties .
PBS
ORG
and other
Senegalese
NORP
rap groups have different concerns .
In the grim lyrics to
Leboho Inwa
ORG
, the executioner is black .
PBS
ORG
raps that
Africans
NORP
are their worst enemies . Front man
Amidu Barry
PERSON
may look like he got his moves on the streets of
Brooklyn
GPE
but his critique of post-colonial finger pointing in
Africa
LOC
tells a different story . You know , in
Africa
LOC
every time you know something bad happens , everybody like you know is because of the white man , you know the colonization , the slavery . They do n't realize that you know the real execution is really black 's black like them . So before they say it is a white man tangle you know it 's because of a white man that this happens and they got to , you know , check around and they say who is the real guilty . We got to accept it and try to , you know , change the things , make the things better . Positive Black Soul are now the oldsters of
Dakar
PERSON
's hip - hop scene and they have established the template of social consciousness that many
Senegalese
NORP
hip - hop groups follow like
Bootin Bye
PERSON
, which recently scored this hit about AIDS prevention . Again
Amidu Barry
PERSON
from
Postive Black Soul
LOC
. When we started there were maybe
two
CARDINAL
or
three
CARDINAL
hip - hop groups in
Dakar
PERSON
and now
today
DATE
we got
more than 2000
CARDINAL
groups only in
Dakar
PERSON
, let 's say in
Senegal
GPE
.
Two thousand
CARDINAL
hip - hop bands ? Hip - hop bands only in
Dakar
PERSON
, not the whole
Senegal
GPE
. So you know it is amazing . It 's fantastic , extraordinary . Just how extraordinary can be heard on a recent
French
NORP
recording . The
Hop
PERSON
is a compilation featuring
Dakar
PERSON
's biggest rap stars from
Bidu Bubes
PERSON
to the current kings of
Senegalese
NORP
hip - hop
Daura
GPE
G . That kind of success needs no translation . For
The World
ORG
, I am
Mark Warmen
PERSON
. This is
The World
ORG
.
I am
Tony Kahn
PERSON
.
Gao Xingjian
PERSON
arrived in
Stockholm
GPE
this week
DATE
and when he leaves the
Chinese
NORP
born writer will have something extra in his suitcase ,
the Nobel Prize for Literature
WORK_OF_ART
. Today
Gao
PERSON
, who now lives in
France
GPE
, gave the traditional
Nobel
WORK_OF_ART
lecture as part of the festivities leading up to
Sunday
DATE
's ceremony , and on
the same day
DATE
he collects the prize .
Gao
PERSON
's
1989
DATE
novel '
Soul Mountain '
WORK_OF_ART
will be published for the
first
ORDINAL
time in
America
GPE
. If you want to know what
Gao Xingjian
PERSON
is all about , as a thinker and as an artist , our international book critic
Christopher Meryl
PERSON
says
Gao
PERSON
's masterpiece is an ideal starting point . His politics are embedded in his writing and his writing is
first
ORDINAL
and foremost a celebration of freedom . This novel ' soul mountain ' , which is just being released in
the United States
GPE
this week
DATE
is in every possible way a celebration of what freedom means . It 's a large novel , full of all kinds of ideas and incidents and stories and tales and a polyphony of voices . It is , if you like , the whole world wrapped up in
500
CARDINAL
pages . It is the world at its most carnival - like , and yet it is virtually impossible , is n't it , for a
Chinese
NORP
artist to do something or to make a statement without its having some kind of either political effect or be political in origin .
I mean this man took the trip on which the novel was based for political reasons , did he not ? Certainly . He is born in
1940
DATE
. He is a product of
the Cultural Revolution
EVENT
. In fact he had to burn up an entire suitcase full of
hundreds
CARDINAL
of poems and plays and stories at the start of
the Cultural Revolution
EVENT
in fear of going to prison , and then in
1983
DATE
after being diagnosed with lung cancer , which had killed his father
three years earlier
DATE
and being convinced that he himself was going to die , he gets a kind of reprieve . He gets a
second
ORDINAL
chest X-ray , discovers that he does n't have lung cancer , recognizes that by virtue of the kinds of things that he is writing , his openness to Western literary ideas , that he is in political trouble again , and so he sets out on an extraordinary odyssey of
some 15,000 kilometers
QUANTITY
, mostly on foot , which he takes through southwestern
China
GPE
. He had survived , if you will , a death sentence , and now in that new freedom of the life in front of him , he takes to the road in the tradition of old
Chinese
NORP
poets and records what he sees , what he hears , the stories that he is told . The book is filled with marvelous descriptions of the gorges through which he walks , the mountains that he climbs , indeed the book is called
Soul Mountain
WORK_OF_ART
, the mountain on which he hopes in some way or another to get in touch with his soul , his individual soul , as opposed to that mass kind of soul being enforced upon him by the
Communist
NORP
Chinese
NORP
authorities , the social realism that the cadres would have him write in . Not only can this fellow write , he can paint too , ca n't he ? He is best known among his neighbors in
Paris
GPE
as a painter .
He has had
more than 30
CARDINAL
one
CARDINAL
- man shows and his paintings are quite delicately done and there he is also very well known as a playwright . I think he has published
about 18
CARDINAL
plays now and he writes his plays in
French
LANGUAGE
. Just
one
CARDINAL
last thing quoting him and I wonder if you could respond to this ,
Christopher
PERSON
, he said at the very beginning of his wonderful speech to
the Nobel Prize Committee
WORK_OF_ART
, he said , " I do not wish to waste this talk on literature by saying too much about politics and history , What I want to do is to use this opportunity to speak as
one
CARDINAL
writer in the voice of an individual . " Is that true basically not only for him that day , today , but of all of his work ? Well , the work that we have so far in
English
LANGUAGE
translation suggests that , and indeed this novel , which is a celebration as well of the self of the individual , goes so far as to even divide up to the self . Characters proliferate out of the imagination of the narrator so that at a certain point , you have a new he , you have a new she , you have a you , and each one of these characters tells stories , each story of which is designed to give you a deeper sense of the richness and the complexity of life in
China
GPE
.
Christopher Meryl
PERSON
is Director of
the International Writing Program
ORG
at
the University of Iowa
ORG
and our international book citric . Thanks ,
Christopher
PERSON
. Thank you .
In the other major story out of
the Middle East
LOC
,
Arab
NORP
Foreign Ministers met
today
DATE
in
Cairo
GPE
in advance of
Saturday
DATE
's
Arab
NORP
's summit .
Egypt
GPE
called the emergency summit to declare support for the
Palestinians
NORP
in the wake of
three weeks
DATE
of violence that has left
at least 106
CARDINAL
people dead , almost all of them
Palestinian
NORP
. Violence has abated somewhat since the deal was struck at
Sharm el - Sheikh
GPE
two days ago
DATE
, but
Arab
NORP
governments are under pressure from their own citizens to take a tough stance against
Israel
GPE
.
James Drummond
PERSON
, covering the
Arab
NORP
summit in
Cairo
GPE
for
the Financial Times
ORG
.
James
PERSON
, there 's a reason why the
Arabs
NORP
wanted this pre-summit meeting . What is the pressure on them prior to the summit ? Well , I think they want to try and iron out any potential difficulties before the heads of state come into town on
Saturday
DATE
and
Sunday
DATE
. So this is a preparatory exercise to reach some sort of agreement beforehand . Of course , the problem is that not all
Arab
NORP
states are speaking again with
one
CARDINAL
voice . What do they hope to achieve ? and what can you claim from the statements made
today
DATE
?
It is difficult to say ,
Arab
NORP
's summit have traditionally been exercises in division . We have already seen problems from
Libyan
NORP
leader
Muammar Gaddafi
PERSON
on
Tuesday
DATE
who appeared on
Al - Jazeera
ORG
, the
pan-Arab
NORP
satellite channel , and , rubbish , what he said was a draft statement for the end of the summit on
Sunday
DATE
. And he was very categorical that it was too weak and did not harm
Israeli
NORP
interests sufficiently . So we have
Gadafi
PERSON
on the one hand . On the other hand we have
Egypt
GPE
which was the
first
ORDINAL
Arab
NORP
country to make peace with the
Jewish
NORP
state , which is of course also a top recipient of
US
GPE
aid . The
Egyptian
NORP
President
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
is more of a voice of moderation against the other side . Tell us about what he has been saying . Well , Mr.
Mubarak
PERSON
has been , as you say , a voice of moderation . He has invested an awful amount in the peace with
Israel
GPE
, and really he can not afford to let it fail . We have seen some more power techniques perhaps from his Foreign Minister
Amre Moussa
PERSON
over
the last few weeks
DATE
, but
Amre Moussa
PERSON
today
DATE
at the Foreign Minister 's meeting was calling simply for the return of
East Jerusalem
GPE
to the
Palestinians
NORP
, in stark contrast to
Syrian
NORP
Foreign Minister
Faruq al - Shara
PERSON
who was pulling for a complete cut in diplomatic relations between
Israel
GPE
and the
two
CARDINAL
Arab
NORP
states that happen .
So
Egypt
GPE
is playing a calming role . It will not want to see anything too strong coming out of this summit due to end on
Sunday
DATE
. What seemed to be the prevailing voices at this point ? There are certainly calls for war against
Israel
GPE
. Is there much support for that ? Well , actually President
Mubarak
PERSON
was very categorical
today
DATE
in condemning calls for war , which he said were very serious and people should understand the implications of just what it meant .
Egypt
GPE
and
Jordan
GPE
do not want to see any sort of conventional war against
Israel
GPE
. They have both invested enormous amounts in it , and both regimes would be more vulnerable if the peace process were to fail , because detractors and opponents within each country would have ammunition by which to fire at them . How much is
the United States
GPE
entering into the conversation and how much pressure seems to be coming from
the United States
GPE
? Well
today
DATE
not too much .
I mean
Madeleine Albright
PERSON
was in
Saudi Arabia
GPE
yesterday
DATE
where she met with crown prince
Abdullah
PERSON
and the new
Syrian
NORP
President
Bashar Al - Assad
PERSON
. Interestingly enough she is quoted as telling General
Sanholi
GPE
back to the
US
GPE
that she did not really get too much of a reception from
Bashar Al - Assad
PERSON
in terms of lightening the traditionally antagonistic
Syrian
NORP
align towards
Israel
GPE
. Nonetheless , the fact that she did meet with
Bashar Al - Assad
PERSON
and it was n't
Saudi Arabia
GPE
which is traditionally being more dovish and has supported
US
GPE
policy , it is significant . So , as of
today
DATE
, I would say certainly on the surface there has been little
US
GPE
action . Well , thank you very much for the update .
James Drummond
PERSON
, correspondent for
the Financial Times of London
ORG
speaking to us from
Cairo
GPE
. Thank you
James
PERSON
. Thanks .
Iraqi
NORP
leader
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
has given a defiant speech to mark the
tenth
ORDINAL
anniversary of
the Gulf War
EVENT
.
He says
Iraq
GPE
has triumphed over the evil of the
West
LOC
.
Barbara Plett
PERSON
reports from
Baghdad
GPE
.
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
addressed the nation in a speech filled with rhetoric and a declaration of victory . "
Iraq
GPE
has triumphed over its enemies , " he said , " and it will triumph in the remaining rounds of the battle . " The
Iraqi
NORP
leader said
the Gulf War
EVENT
was a confrontation between good and evil that continues to
this day
DATE
. He was referring to his struggle against the
US
GPE
, which strongly supports the economic embargo meant to force him to disarm . After the speech demonstrators gathered in a public show of support for their President . A sense of nationalism has grown stronger here as many people rally against what they say is a siege on their country .
Barbara Plett
PERSON
,
BBC News
ORG
,
Baghdad
GPE
.
Back to the scene in
Orlando
GPE
Florida
GPE
. We were here moments ago where the man in the green in the forefront of the screen there , the former POW
David Williams
PERSON
was speaking to the crowd rather emotionally and now you see he is taking down the black and white POW flag . I wish I could tell you which site this flag was hoisted in . We have the pictures coming in from
Central Florida
LOC
, News 13 . This is that
City Hall
FAC
in
Orlando
GPE
, now I 'm being told . Quite an emotional scene
this morning
TIME
.
David Williams
PERSON
,
one
CARDINAL
of the POWs whose face we got to know in the coverage that we saw coming from
Iraq
GPE
. Other POWs from
Iraq
GPE
after they were captured and released , that dramatic release that
Sunday
DATE
morning
TIME
when they were picked up by a squadron of
Marines
NORP
who had wandered in a town in
Baghdad
GPE
and were told where they were being kept . Dramatic rescue and then a return home . Quite an emotional experience and
one
CARDINAL
of us can only imagine what it must have been like to endure .
As we said , quite an emotional moment in
Orlando
GPE
,
Florida
GPE
. And you see
Apache
PRODUCT
helicopter pilot and his wife
Michelle
PERSON
who was talking with us on the telephone the
Sunday
DATE
morning
TIME
when the video came in of the rescue of the POWs and , she identified her husband and life just got better and better for her after that . Moving on now , in upstate
New York Stock Exchange
ORG
criminal charges have been filed in
last month 's
DATE
fraternity hazing death at
Platsberg State University of New York
ORG
.
11
CARDINAL
members had been charged with negligent homicide for forcing
18 - year - old
DATE
pledge
Walter Dean Jenning
PERSON
to drink an excessive amount of water . The fraternity also faces
more than 150
CARDINAL
charges for other hazing activities , as well . Moving on to the
Laci Peterson
PERSON
case
Bill
PERSON
, an unusual request from
Scott Peterson 's
PERSON
attorney . A pair of
Laci Peterson 's
PERSON
missing shoes could be very important evidence in
Scott
ORG
's murder trial . She is asking anyone who finds the pair to give them back . No sign of
Geragos
GPE
or
Peterson
PERSON
in court
yesterday
DATE
when a judge was considering whether to unseal warrants obtained before
Scott Peterson 's
PERSON
arrest .
Peterson
PERSON
awaiting trial in the murder of his wife
Laci
PERSON
and their unborn son . Joining us ,
Beth Caras
PERSON
. Good
morning
TIME
once again . Thanks for being with us . Well , joining us now , the chairman of
the Securities and Exchange Commission
ORG
,
William Donaldson
PERSON
. MR. chairman , it 's good to have you here . Nice to be here ,
Lou
PERSON
. Let 's start with that surprise , the malfeasance that is crossing your desk . Are you suggesting corporate
America
GPE
has not learned its lesson yet ?
Well , no . I think that quote is a little out of context there . there are
15,000
CARDINAL
companies in
the United States
GPE
, and I think the great bulk of them are very honestly managed and so forth . a number of people have had egregious fraud and so forth . There 's been a general loosening of morals across the board . What I was referring to in that quote you had was the number of cases we see day in and day out at the lowest levels , scams and so forth , where considerable amounts of money are being made and lost by relatively small investors . Is the investor
today
DATE
in your judgment secure ? Well , I think that the marketplace is becoming increasingly secure . I think a number of the reforms that have come via the Sarbanes - Oxley Act and a number of things that we have done at the
SEC
ORG
are basically making everybody take a new look at how they 're performing their duty as a director , how they 're performing their duties on audit committees and compensation committees and in Wall Street . I think the reforms that came as a part of the large settlement are going to change the way research and investment banking are done to the betterment of the individual investor .
And some people are surprised and I might even add pleased in this city that your
SEC
ORG
has been quick to react when
Phil Purcell
PERSON
of
Morgan Stanley
ORG
made a statement that your
SEC
ORG
did n't think and that you did n't think expressed appropriate contrition when
Bear Stearns
ORG
stepped out of line in the view of the
SEC
ORG
. It was n't a polite phone call quietly made , either from your enforcement division or from your office , it was rather public . Is that the way you 're going to operate ? Well ,
Lou
PERSON
, we 're deadly serious about bringing reform into the marketplace . We 're deadly serious about some of the actions we 've taken , and when we see people who do n't appear to be taking it too seriously , we 're going to get to them right away . And I think perhaps no one more surprised than some of the people running those firms on Wall Street . You have also expressed concern about excessive executive compensation , particularly CEO compensation . Is there really anything that can be done about this problem ? I think so ,
Lou
PERSON
. I think the real next step here is for compensation committees to spend a little more time than they do on what they 're really compensating for .
I think there 's been too much emphasis on performance defined strictly by stock performance and earnings per share . I think there are a number of other measures that indicate how well somebody 's doing running a company , and I think corporation boards need to spend more time on that dimension . And with you as Chairman of the
SEC
ORG
exercising your bully pulpit ,
one
CARDINAL
assumes that -- Welcome back . We 're standing by for
the White House
ORG
press briefing .
Ari Fleischer
PERSON
expected to come into the West Wing briefing room to brief reporters on a wide variety of subjects . We 're all getting , this news in from the speech that the
Homeland Security
ORG
Secretary
Tom Ridge
PERSON
is expected to be delivering at the international press club around 1:00
Eastern
ORG
at
the top of the hour
TIME
. We 're expecting that the
Homeland Security
ORG
Secretary will announce , that this
Iraqi
NORP
lawyer , who provided the information to
U.S.
GPE
military authority IES has been granted asylum here in
the United States
GPE
, together with his wife and daughter . They 're currently in the
Washington
GPE
,
D.C.
GPE
area .
An official tells our justice producer
Terry Frieden
PERSON
. So that development important . Might get more information from Secretary
Tom Ridge
PERSON
when he delivers that speech over at the press club in
the next hour
TIME
. We 'll be monitoring that as well . We also have an update on that disturbing development outside
Baghdad
GPE
,
about 40 miles
QUANTITY
or so outside
Baghdad
GPE
in
Fallujah
GPE
where there was a shootout between
U.S.
GPE
troops and
Iraqis
NORP
who had been demonstrating there .
Karl Penhaul
PERSON
is joining us live on the phone with more .
First
ORDINAL
of all ,
Karl
PERSON
, how many
Iraqis
NORP
were killed in that incident ? Now back to " people in the news . " Good to be -LRB- bleep
-RRB- King
PERSON
.
Reporter : With the success of a new television show and
last year 's
DATE
Oz-fest tour ready to kick off , things were looking great for
Ozzy Osbourne
PERSON
. He was sober , he was rich and surrounded by a family who loved him but once again ,
Ozzy
PERSON
's high would hit a low . That
July
DATE
,
Sharon Osbourne
PERSON
,
Ozzy
PERSON
's long - time manager , wife and best friend , announced to the world that she 'd been diagnosed with colon cancer . Every fiber of
Ozzy
PERSON
was shaken . He had to be sedated for a while . Reporter :
Sharon
PERSON
would have to undergo rounds of chemotherapy
all summer
DATE
.
Ozzy
PERSON
took time off from Oz-fest to tend to his wife . Ever the rock ,
Sharon
PERSON
faced cancer head on .
When you go in there and people so much worse than me , and it 's like , How lucky am I to have a great support system . Reporter : Even with
Sharon
PERSON
trying to make things as easy as possible on her husband , he was still a mess . His struggle with sobriety would be tested again .
Ozzy
PERSON
's not doing too good right now . Drinking ? Drinking and he 's very delicate . He 's , like , dealing with it the best he can . Reporter : Despite
Sharon
PERSON
's illness , it 's business as usual for the family .
Though pushed back , filming commenced
last fall
DATE
on
a second season
DATE
of " the
Osbournes
ORG
. "
Some days
DATE
when I 'm feeling bad , I say I ca n't do this anymore , and then you wake up and see the crew , and then , you know , you snap out of it . Reporter : The larger question loomed . How could comedy come out of chemotherapy treatments ?
Sharon
PERSON
is dealing with the diagnosis and illness but what 's interesting is humor is the same . Reporter : And the humor did remain the same . The show came back with a vengeance
last fall
DATE
chronicling
Ozzy
PERSON
and
Sharon
PERSON
dealing with cancer and the kids coping with new - found celebrity and
one
CARDINAL
of the top rated shows . Ratings for
the second season
DATE
slid .
I 'm not banking my whole life on bringing , you know , number one rated show . Having a nervous breakdown . The bubble will burst . Reporter :
This year
DATE
, more ups and downs .
Sharon
PERSON
announced in
April
DATE
that the cancer was in remission , but
just weeks
DATE
after that announcement , son
Jack
PERSON
entered drug and alcohol rehabilitation in
California
GPE
. His family said that his party life style caught up with him . Now , with
a third season
DATE
set to start , will
Ozzy
PERSON
's role as a family man change the image in the annuls of heavy metal mad man ? I think
Ozzy
PERSON
's the guy that hit a head of a bat , you know ? Crazy , drug taking , hard drinking , hard living rock n roller .
I think what the show does is also show that you might be those things , but also might be a pretty great dad , too . I would n't be here now if it was n't for my wife . I always loved my wife but sometimes I do n't like her and sometimes she does n't like me but we love each other . I hate these people that go , we 've been married for
56 years
DATE
and never had a bad word . They must have been living in a different planet . Reporter :
Ozzy Osbourne 's
PERSON
life filled with incredible highs crashing into devastating lows . A manic life , grounded in family values .
Ozzy
PERSON
's not going to like me saying this , but he 's a very tender , gentle man . This is a guy whose world revolves not so much around music as around his wife .
Rock '
ORG
n roll ! Part of the legacy of
Ozzy Osbourne
PERSON
is a cautionary tale . It 's also , you know , tale that includes family love , you know , and a lot of good things . We have had it . Reporter : It 's a tale that continues to unfold . No telling how long the
Osbourne
PERSON
phenomenon may last but the family 's loyal following will always be screaming for more . Stop screaming ! Reporter : And so will
Ozzy
PERSON
.
Sharon
PERSON
! Despite problems -- Moving ahead now to a developing story , the hunt for so - called smoking gun , meant to prove that
Iraq
GPE
was developing weapons of mass destruction . Here 's national security correspondent
David Ensor
PERSON
. Reporter : While
U.S.
GPE
forces still have n't found any weapons of mass destruction , the new
CIA
ORG
Pentagon
ORG
report says officials are now confident the mysterious trucks filled with high - tech equipment found in
Iraq
GPE
are indeed mobile biological weapons production facilities , just as Secretary of
State
ORG
Powell
PERSON
predicted and presented
the United Nations
ORG
before the war . It 's very important to recognize that programs that we had said existed do exist . Reporter : Though no trace of biological toxin was found in the trucks ,
U.S.
GPE
intelligence officials say they have largely eliminated any other possible use for the fermenters and other equipment .
Not everyone is convinced . They could very well be biological weapons production facilities , but I do n't think the intelligence community has made an open and shut case . Reporter : The
CIA
ORG
-
Pentagon
ORG
reports admits the trucks were not an efficient way to produce biological weapons , but officials argue the point for the
Iraqis
NORP
was to produce some and not to be caught doing it . This was clearly a very inefficient way to produce anthrax , and the question is why did they invest such resources in a mobile -- "
Vanity Fair 's
ORG
" columnist
Daniel Fair
PERSON
is here . Quiting in the
June
DATE
edition , he describes the journey . He said he found evidence that
Hussein
PERSON
's day of reckoning well overdue .
Christopher Hitchens
PERSON
joins us from
California
GPE
.
Good to have you with us . Thanks for having me . Your journey , particularly to southern
Iraq
GPE
, what is evoked there a sense of both that you evoke is a sense of history of this regime . Give us your insights as to what you think the future holds . Do you mean if I start with the Past ? Not at you will . Not at all . Not much of a trip . I was n't up the sharp end . I was n't taking risks .
I was n't in a position that my dear friend was in when he was killed outside
Bagdad airport
FAC
but I had long thought and I was in
Iraq
GPE
in the previous war that really all the talk that had been about the rush to war , the push for war , the drive for war , all that propaganda , was essentially nonsensical because in
1990
DATE
,
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
made the only self criticism . He said , I could either invade
Kuwait
GPE
or finish developing the nuclear weapon . Maybe before the weapon and then later he said , Oh , I should have got the nuclear weapon before I invaded . He was right about that , but that means that he inaugurated at that point like a
dozen - years
DATE
war where
the United States
GPE
could be criticized for doing too little and acting too slowly but all we 're arguing about lately is to do with those that should have been finished in
'91
DATE
when it could have been finished . Should have taken the side of the rebels then , taken the risk of supporting a
Shiite
NORP
insurrection at that point , helping the
Kurds
NORP
, removing the regime . Absolutely . We 'd be
11 years
DATE
into nation building by now if we 'd done that . That seems to be the core of the argument . As you point out , of course , for the fact of the matter is , the mistakes of
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
made possible his removal from power ultimately . The mistakes of
the United States
GPE
, again , as you point out ,
Norman Schwarzkopf
PERSON
making a peace , permitting helicopters to fly .
Still hurts me to read this . The little town I was in this southern
Iraq
GPE
, as far as I got , I ca n't boast of further , is where the talks took place . We have the transcript of the meeting . They say , Okay , we have lost this round , Do you mind if we keep your helicopters in the air just to be able to transport things ? and he says , Yeah , that 's all right . They ask again , Are you sure they mean that ? They ca n't believe the luck . They use the gunships to kill , we think , not
less than 50,000
CARDINAL
inhabitants of southern
Iraq
GPE
and trying to do that to the
Kurds
NORP
, as well , so it was a knife edge . And it 's not just being wise after the event , I believe , to say that there was an argument in realtime between the
Bush
PERSON
administration members . Mr.
Cheney
PERSON
's the only one I know that changed his mind . Most of those that took the view at that time , think until recently they were correct in saving
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
.
Of course , Mr.
Cheney
PERSON
was in the chain of command with
Swartzkopf
ORG
and -- Many others . When they made the decision not to move toward
Bagdad
GPE
with bad information , namely , the
Republican Guard
ORG
absolutely devastated . Yes . And , well , we know now the harvest of all that . It hurts to think of how many wonderful people in
Iraq
GPE
at the academic community , lawyers , human rights activists , civilians , intellectuals , people -- would now be alive , who have been horribly murdered and tortured and reduced to misery since by a
half
CARDINAL
application of violence through sanctions and overflights . Mistakes made then , mistakes part of human experience , but now we have an opportunity not to make mistakes . Is it your sense that
the United States
GPE
is on the right track ? that there is a commitment here on the part of
the United States
GPE
to -- Want to get to
Florida
GPE
, a massive manhunt underway where a rapist is targeting children .
DNA testing has conclusively linked
one
CARDINAL
man . The
two
CARDINAL
most recent victims ,
age 11 and 13
DATE
. They also believed one of those attacked in this string is
age 79
DATE
as well . We talked with the lieutenant in
Miami
GPE
and there is big time concern in the
Shenandoah
PERSON
neighborhood , southwestern portion of
Miami
GPE
. Overseas in
Iraq
GPE
, a major operation underway . Some
U.S.
GPE
troops have not had a chance to call home since they were deployed for duty in "
Operation Iraqi Freedom
EVENT
. " For some wives , the kindness of strangers has eased their worries .
Beth Basin
PERSON
explains . Reporter :
Jamie
PERSON
's husband
Jack
PERSON
was deployed
a couple of weeks ago
DATE
. She and her daughter
Jordan
PERSON
often shuffle through these pictures of him taken before he left . She has no idea where her husband is now , but thanks to a little help from a
Delta
ORG
flight attendant , she knew he got where he was going . She had taken a picture of him and everything . Reporter : Along with the picture , the flight attendant wrote a letter saying she was praying for
Jack
PERSON
's safe return . The trip to
Georgia
GPE
was just the
first
ORDINAL
leg . He got on a flight to an undisclosed location , when
Jamie
PERSON
got a
second
ORDINAL
phone call from a flight attendant . He asked us to call you to let you know he 's okay . And she told us that he whipped out pictures of our kids and everything and showed all the family pictures and stuff .
Reporter :
Jamie
PERSON
is not the only military wife who received a photo and letter . Her friend
Anna
PERSON
also got one . Turns out
Anna
PERSON
's husband flew out on the same flight as
Jack
PERSON
. Although a small gesture ,
Anna
PERSON
says it 's meant a great deal . It made me realize that someone out there does care about my husband and the rest of the military , and it 's not all anti-war . Reporter : Even though neither of the women have ever met the flight attendants , they say they 'll never forget their act of kindness . We get
thousands
CARDINAL
of e-mail from our viewers every day . Here 's what some of you are saying as far as our coverage of the top stories is concerned .
William
PERSON
writes this -- Please continue to write to us . We love hearing from you . Just go to our Website , cnn.com/wolf . We read all of your e-mail . Much more coverage of the new
Iraq
GPE
and -- As we said ,
earlier this week
DATE
,
Christine Todd Whitman
PERSON
stepped down and now a whole lot of analysis is taking place as to why she stepped down , the job she 's done when she was in office and the job that has yet to be complete . From our
New York
GPE
bureau as I was introducing a moment ago ,
Dan Fagen
PERSON
, the environment writer for
News Day
EVENT
. and
Dan
PERSON
,
Whitman
PERSON
did consider herself sort of the
Republican
NORP
environmentalist , but now there 's been an awful lot of
Monday night
TIME
quarterback quarterbacking taking place now that she 's stepped down .
What do you suppose took place here ? I think many people have watched this administration in action and watched
Christy Whitman
PERSON
in action . The mystery is that she took the job in the
first
ORDINAL
place or did n't leave earlier . She was quite a misfit for this administration , and she showed that over and over . She was not good at all at communicating the administration 's message to the public and certainly to the environmental groups and she was even worse at bringing the
EPA
ORG
bureaucracy , the
EPA
ORG
environmental policy makers ' message to this administration because she saw herself undercut over and over . That 's interesting because leading into it , while she was
New Jersey
GPE
governor , she sued the
EPA
ORG
and she was very much considering herself to be an environmentalist , and then only to end up becoming the head of the
EPA
ORG
and then of course , there was a lot of criticism over relaxed regulations . Let 's hear what she had to say
last Wednesday
DATE
here on
CNN
ORG
just after announcing her resignation . I 'm not leaving because of clashes with the administration , in fact , I have n't had any . I report to the President , and he has always asked me to give him my best unadulterated advice . We have have been on the same page .
I was never supportive of protocol because it did n't do what everyone needs to get done as far as climate change is concerned . I 'm leaving now because it 's the appropriate time to do it .
Dan
PERSON
, do you agree with that ? She says the appropriate time . Do you suppose for personal reasons or perhaps she was out of step with the administration ? I 'm sure that it was difficult for her personally , but I think the commuter marriage perhaps would have been less stressful if everyday she did n't see herself being undermined and overruled . I mean if
Christy Whitman
PERSON
and
the White House
ORG
were on the same page , I do n't think I 've seen a book large enough to contain a page that big . Over and over there were many , many instances over the last -- An occasion that marked the formal establishment between our
two
CARDINAL
countries .
Since then this relationship has grown in importance to us both through good times and bad . Both of my generation and
Britain
GPE
have special pause to remember the unacceptable sacrifice the
Russian
NORP
people made to defeat fascism in
the Second World War
EVENT
. Nothing , not even the fact that our countries became estranged in the war 's aftermath , has ever dimmed our memory of the scale of your loss . That experience should continue to inspire us , as we seek to build a more peaceful and secure world . When I visited your country in
1994
DATE
, I recall saying to President
Yeltsin
PERSON
that he and I spent most of our lives believing such a visit would never happen , and that I hoped he was as delighted as I was to be proved wrong . I 'm just as delighted now ,
nine years later
DATE
, to be able to welcome you here and to learn about the great changes which have occurred in your country since I was there .
Russia
GPE
has established itself as our partner and our friend . We work together bilatarily and on the international stage , and we are developing new links all the time in fields of commerce , culture , counterterrorism , energy , education environment . I know you will be seeing evidence of some of this during your visit . Mr. President , it is , I believe , a sign of genuine friendship that we are able to have disagreements , but remain firm partners .
It is no secret that the significant differences between our
two
CARDINAL
countries
earlier this year
DATE
on how best to handle
Iraq
GPE
, but we are now able to look forward together firmly in agreement on the route we have decided in
the United Nations
ORG
, although , the tragic loss of
British
NORP
lives
today
DATE
reminds us all of the difficulties to be faced . But as we look ahead , we know that our long - term partnership is of profound importance to both of us . This is clearly evident , if we look beyond the challenges of international politics . In
the last few months alone
DATE
, we have heard the announcements of major investments in
Russia
GPE
by
British
NORP
companies . We have also heard a different sign of Sir
Paul McCartney
PERSON
playing to enthusiastic crowds in
Red Square
FAC
, and we , in turn , have been enthralled by the celebrations of your own city in
Petersburg
GPE
. At the same time , work continues to bring the young people of our countries closer together through language , teaching , school exchanges and university programs . We have a vibrant and exciting relationship from which we both derive mass benefit . Mr. President , your country is rich -- Convicted rapist and
Max Factor
ORG
heir
Andrew Luster
PERSON
is back in
California
GPE
.
Luster
PERSON
returned to
Los Angeles
GPE
yesterday
DATE
from
Mexico
GPE
following his capture
Tuesday
DATE
by
American
NORP
bounty hunters .
Luster
PERSON
skipped bail during his trial in
January
DATE
for raping and drugging
three
CARDINAL
women . He was sentenced in
abstentia to 124 years
DATE
in prison .
Canada
GPE
is on the path to becoming the
third
ORDINAL
country to allow gay marriage . The federal government will not appeal the court ruling that cleared the way for same - sex unions . Prime Minister
Jean Chretien
PERSON
says the government will now draft legislation legalizing gay marriages . And the
U.S.
GPE
government , can withhold the names of people detained as part of the
9 / 11
DATE
investigation . That 's the decision from a federal appeals court reversing a lower court ruling .
The Justice Department
ORG
argued that releasing the names could hamper ongoing investigations .
As we 've been reporting , only within
the past hour
TIME
or so , there 's been a shooting incident in central
Israel
GPE
, not far from
the West Bank
GPE
. A
7 - year - old
DATE
Israeli
NORP
girl has died .
Two
CARDINAL
others , her father apparently and another sister , have been wounded in this incident . We 're going to continue to get more details on this late - breaking development and bring you those details when we have them . A federal appeals court will decide how long dirty bomb suspect
Jose Padilla
PERSON
can be retained and whether he can meet with attorneys . The
U.S.
GPE
attorney says
Padilla
PERSON
is an enemy combattant and not entitled to counsel . He is accused of attempting to ignite a dirty bomb in this country . Welcome and good evening , everyone .
Mike
PERSON
is off
tonight
TIME
. To our top story of the evening --
Martha Stewart
PERSON
is stepping down as head of her media empire . She announced her decision to vacate her post as chief executive of
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
ORG
, following word of a federal indictment . In a statement , she says she 's stepping aside in the best interest of the company , but she will stay on the board of directors .
Stewart
PERSON
pleaded not guilty to a
nine
CARDINAL
- count indictment . The charges include conspiracy to obstruct justice and perjury connected to an insider trading scandal . The government also filed civil charges against her . She is charged with using insider information to bail out of a biotech stock
the day
DATE
before its price tanked , and then trying to cover it up . Her stockbroker was also charged . If convicted on all counts ,
Stewart
PERSON
faces
up to 30 years
DATE
in prison and
$ 2 million
MONEY
in fines .
And
the Dixie Chicks
ORG
open their
U.S.
GPE
tour
tomorrow night
TIME
in
Greenville
GPE
,
South Carolina
GPE
. The popular band has been criticized within country music circles for comments by lead singer
Natalie Maines
PERSON
. She said she was embarrassed to be from the same state as President
Bush
PERSON
. She has since apologized for her remarks . Hmm ,
those Dixie Chicks
ORG
. Speaking of chicks -- call it puppy love , call it maternal instinct , but , mostly it 's just out of the ordinary .
Andrea Ash
PERSON
from
Kezi
GPE
in
Portland
GPE
has this story of chicken that decided to take
a new day
DATE
job . Reporter : People have long struggled with the question , Why did the chicken cross the road ? - but all the
Scott
ORG
family wants to know is , Why did a chicken adopt their
ten
CARDINAL
new puppies ?
Every time we looked out our window it was like , What is she doing in there ? It looks so out of place . It 's just funny . Reporter : The puppies were born
Easter Sunday
ORG
. Soon after ,
one
CARDINAL
of the family 's
three
CARDINAL
chickens flew the coop and took up residence in the crate built especially for the puppies . They goes in there and nuzzles with the puppies , or lays her eggs and sits there with the mother . They 're just all happy , a little family in there . Reporter : At
first
ORDINAL
the sight shocked the
Scott
ORG
family .
They tried to shoo the hen away but she kept coming back , even putting up baby gates to try to keep the chicken out . No match for her . She simply flew over . It also got past the puppies ' protective father . I am going to sit with these punies . Reporter : The Scotts ran it past their vet and the vet assured them , as long as the hen left her crate to do business , she was no harm to the pup . The family says the chicken keeps the place clean , so she 's free to stay . A pretty good relationship with that chicken . She does n't mind them crawling around underneath her .
Reporter : When the mom comes in , the puppies know exactly where to go for milk -- sort of a little confusion . The pups do n't exactly know the difference between fur and feathers yet . After all , they 're
only a week old
DATE
. Eventually they all find the real mom . No one knows what will happen as the pups grow older and are able to open their eyes . Chances are , they 'll always have a fondness from one hen . Those puppies are in for a heck of a surprise when they do open their eyes , are n't they ? The puppies come home to roost ! That 's a good one .
That was a great story . We 'll try to follow that in
our next half hour
DATE
. We 'll tell you what the
FTC
ORG
is doing to crack down on internet auction fraud . That and the top stories in
just two minutes
TIME
. I 'm
Mike Galanos
PERSON
. And I 'm
Rudi Bakhtiar
PERSON
. We leave you with sounds from
Willie Nelson
PERSON
, the country legend is celebrating his
70th
ORDINAL
birthday . This is
CNN
ORG
"
Headline News Tonight
WORK_OF_ART
. " All
one
CARDINAL
of the many young faces that bear the heavy mark of war .
The story of
one
CARDINAL
boy who 's lucky enough to be alive . I 'm
Mary Snow
PERSON
with this check of headlines .
American Airlines '
ORG
fate is hanging on its flight attendant 's union , its narrowly rejected union
today
DATE
. If the workers do n't approve the steep cutbacks
American
NORP
says it will file for bankruptcy .
Yesterday
DATE
American
NORP
pilots mechanics approved their share
$ 1.8 billion
MONEY
in labor concession .
American
NORP
warns it will seek more layoffs if it does file for
Chapter 11
LAW
. Number of companies are planning to cut their payrolls .
Motorola
ORG
saying it will eliminate another
3,000
CARDINAL
jobs ,
3 %
PERCENT
of its work force . Let 's look at the latest numbers on the Dow . Wall Street stocks are mixed .
The
Dow
ORG
industrials down
64
CARDINAL
points . Nasdaq up
about 13
CARDINAL
points . That 's the latest from Wall Street .
CNN
ORG
Live
Today
DATE
continues after this . Another story out of
Belgrade
GPE
, violence at the highest form . The
Serbian
NORP
Prime Minister ,
Zoran Djindjic
PERSON
has died of his wounds after being shot , an assassination attempt . Apparently , he was on his way to greet reporters at the time outside the main government office there in
Belgrade
GPE
. All this happening
about 90 minutes ago
TIME
based on the wire reports we 're getting here . The word from
Serbia
GPE
,
Zoran Djindjic
PERSON
, the Prime Minister , is dead .
Earlier reports said he was shot in the back , as well as the stomach . It looks like an
annual
DATE
tradition is building .
80,000
CARDINAL
people with a shared love of music converge on a
Tennessee
GPE
pasture for
three days
DATE
of good vibes and who knows what else . It 's called
Bonnaroo
PERSON
. Check it out . Bonnaroo is kind of this going example of what the whole jam band community is turned in . That 's what I really like about the jam community , its acceptance of improvizational music , despite whatever region or genre . It 's about the freedom of the music and the freedom of expression . Well , we sold all
80,000
CARDINAL
tickets through our web site .
We sold out in
16 days
DATE
. I mean , the amazing thing is , we used no traditional advertising . We put all these bands together . It draws a huge audience , so the record companies and the music business has to take all of these forms of music more seriously . It 's like strength in numbers . I hope this kind of thing can happen in
America
GPE
, instead of it just being these isolated festivals like Bonnaroo , it really can happen in
100
CARDINAL
cities every summer , like the festivals do in
Europe
LOC
. My only complaint is the overlapping . You know , as a music lover that I am , there 's
five
CARDINAL
acts all playing at the same time on
five
CARDINAL
different stages that I want to see . It really comes from the actual bands and the fact that there 's this grassroots following that 's been there , you know , for a long time , primarily started by
the Grateful Dead
ORG
, at least the future by
the Grateful Dead
ORG
. We will get by we will survive .
We 're carrying on a tradition that started a long time . In
American
NORP
music , improvization is what it 's always been about . It 's not just clapping and having a good time . It makes you feel a certain kind of love , and hopefully , that translates in the community . You go out . You hug someone . You do something good . You make a better world . For me , that 's music . We love you .
We --
Central Command
ORG
has determined that
Baghdad Airport
FAC
is unusable for normal air operations . The airport , for the most part , is now under
U.S.
GPE
control . Military officials will not say whether damage to the runways is going to limit operation there , but they know there are underground bunkers there and some other areas that may be of use .
Centcom
ORG
also says
2500
CARDINAL
Republican Guard
ORG
troops have surrendered to
U.S. Marines
NORP
between
Kut
PERSON
and
Baghdad
GPE
. Military officials say
the Baghdad Republican Guard
ORG
division is no longer an effective fighting force .
USAirways
ORG
is flying its way out of bankruptcy . The company which lost
nearly $ 4 billion
MONEY
over
the past two years
DATE
has cut its
annual
DATE
costs by
nearly $ 2 billion
MONEY
.
Most of that was saved by cutting employee wages and benefits . The
Dow
ORG
is down , you see there , just
about almost 140
CARDINAL
points . Nasdaq down
20
CARDINAL
and the
S&P
ORG
is down , as well . So the markets are continuing their negative trend from
last week
DATE
. We 'll keep our eye on that . Coming up right here ,
next hour
TIME
on Live From , terror tactics on the battlefield . Is it a taste of more to come in
Iraq
GPE
? We 'll talk with a terror expert about that , and
Iraqi
NORP
deserters on the northern front ,
Ben Wedeman
PERSON
has their story why they 're no longer fighting for
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
and
Don Shepperd
PERSON
is going to answer some of your questions as he looks at the battle hot spots . Now let 's go back to
Wolf Blitzer
PERSON
in
Kuwait City
GPE
for more special coverage of the war in
Iraq
GPE
.
Breaking news out of
Long Beach
GPE
, a situation with a standoff involving a
2 - year - old
DATE
and a man with a gun , this one having a peaceful ending . This is near
the Long Beach Airport
FAC
and involved a city bus . A man who had assault , he actually had assault with a deadly weapon , this is pictures . Look at that . Man spread - eagle with a
two - year - old
DATE
child . The officer is going to go in and swoop her away . As we understand it , the man had the child . It was inside of the city bus . Police surrounded this bus near the airport with guns drawn . The man came out and did the spread - eagle like that .
Just as he did that , that 's when you saw the child just walking just
a few feet
QUANTITY
away from him but the officers were able to get the child away . They handcuffed the man and they took him into custody . That was after he had actually barricaded himself inside that bus with the child . So that one coming to a peaceful ending , what could have been a very gruesome situation involving that
two - year - old
DATE
child in
Southern California
LOC
. That one is over in
Long Beach
GPE
. A
Palestinian
NORP
terrorist leader wanted for a deadly
1985
DATE
cruise ship hijacking is in
U.S.
GPE
custody in
Iraq
GPE
.
U.S.
GPE
sources tell
CNN
ORG
Mohammed " Abu "
PERSON
Abbas
PERSON
was captured
about 50 miles
QUANTITY
west of
Baghdad
GPE
.
Palestinian
NORP
sources say he had tried to flee into
Syria
GPE
, but was turned away at the border . In
October of 1985
DATE
,
four
CARDINAL
hijackers under his command took over the
Italian
NORP
cruise ship "
Achille Lauro
PRODUCT
" and killed a wheelchair - bound
American
NORP
tourist ,
Leo Klinghoffer
PERSON
.
Abbas
PERSON
was convicted in absentia by an
Italian
NORP
court and sentenced to
five
CARDINAL
life terms in prison . An unexpected surge in the unemployment lines . I 'm
Myron Kandel
PERSON
at the
cnnfn
ORG
newsdesk in
New York
GPE
. New claims for jobless benefits are moving upward .
First
ORDINAL
time claims jumped by
7,000
CARDINAL
last week
DATE
, surprising analysts , and the
four - week
DATE
average hit its highest level since
January of last year
DATE
. The report shows the nation 's tight job market is loosening up a bit , but still unemployment is near a
30 - year
DATE
low .
The Dixie Chicks
ORG
are the big winners at
the Country Music Awards
ORG
in
Nashville
GPE
. The group won
four
CARDINAL
awards --
Entertainer of the Year
ORG
,
Best Vocal Group
ORG
, Best Album for " Fly , " and Music Video of the Year for "
Goodbye
WORK_OF_ART
,
Earl
PERSON
. "
Faith
Hill
ORG
received the Female Vocalist award .
Husband Tim M Graw
PERSON
got the Male Vocalist honor . They are the
first
ORDINAL
married couple to win both honors in
the same year
DATE
. " I Hope You Dance , " by
Lee Ann Womack
PERSON
, was awarded
Single of the Year and Song of the Year
ORG
. A
Russian Navy
ORG
spokesman says bad weather could complicate the work to recover bodies from the sunken nuclear submarine "
Kursk
PRODUCT
. "
Russian
NORP
and
Norwegian
NORP
divers successfully removed a rubber coating between the inner and outer hulls of sub
yesterday
DATE
. Thick fog , rain and high winds are limiting visibility at the site . All
118
CARDINAL
people on board the "
Kursk
PRODUCT
" died when the submarine exploded and sank to the bottom of
the Barents Sea
LOC
.
Hello from
Atlanta
GPE
. Our top story
this half hour
TIME
, the man responsible for
U.S.
GPE
forces in
the Persian Gulf
LOC
says there was no specific threat of an imminent attack in the
Yemeni
NORP
port of
Aden
GPE
before a bomb ripped into
the " USS Cole
PRODUCT
" there
this month
DATE
.
Army
ORG
General
Tommy Franks
PERSON
, head of
the U.S. Central Command
ORG
,
today
DATE
testified before
the Senate Armed Services Committee
ORG
to answer questions about the attack . He told lawmakers it would not trigger a
U.S.
GPE
retreat from
the Persian Gulf
LOC
, even though troops remain at risk to terrorism .
17
CARDINAL
sailors were killed and
dozens
CARDINAL
were injured when the explosion blew a huge hole into the hull of the
Navy
ORG
destroyer as it was refueling in
Aden
GPE
.
Franks
PERSON
said
U.S.
GPE
war ships have made
almost 30
CARDINAL
safe visits to
Aden
GPE
since
January of last year
DATE
. He added the attack is already the subject of an intense investigation by many agencies . We 're determined to get to the bottom of this . We 'll put the events that led up to "
Cole
PRODUCT
" under a microscope , and , in fact , we 've begun that process . We will find the facts we need to find , and we 'll use the lessons that we learn from "
Cole
PRODUCT
" to provide the best possible force protection for our troops in
one
CARDINAL
of the most dangerous regions of the world .
The summit is coinciding with more unrest in several areas of
the West Bank
GPE
and
Gaza Strip
GPE
.
Hundreds
CARDINAL
of stone - throwing
Palestinians
NORP
stormed the
Israeli
NORP
- controlled section of
Hebron
GPE
, breaking a curfew imposed since the outbreak of the unrest
last month
DATE
. Witnesses said
Israeli
NORP
soldiers fired live ammunition and rubber - coated metal bullets , wounding
at least seven
CARDINAL
people .
Thousands
CARDINAL
of
Palestinian
NORP
demonstrators marched in the area to protest against a renewal of contacts with
Israel
GPE
. The hottest gift
this Christmas
DATE
could be
Sony
ORG
's new
PlayStation 2
PRODUCT
, but good luck finding one . As
Greg Lefevre
PERSON
reports , many stores have sold out of the game even before its release . Coming to a retailer near you ,
PlayStation
PRODUCT
pandemonium .
Sony
ORG
's long - awaited release of its latest video game console is guaranteed to pump up the volume on video game sales , already a
$ 7 billion
MONEY
business .
Kids are spending
$ 50 to $ 70
MONEY
, you know , a pop on these games . There 's money here ! The price ? $
300
MONEY
. A lot by current standards . It 's great . The fact that it can also be a DVD player . You see a very wide environment with a lot of detail in the background . The dazzling speed and bright graphics are dampened by a tight supply of units .
Sony
ORG
promised to debut with
a million
CARDINAL
of the consoles , then cut that in
half
CARDINAL
.
Opening day is
Thursday
DATE
at
midnight
TIME
. Many stores took orders and sold out in advance . All of our customers who participated in our presale list will get it . And the others ? There 's going to be people all over the place trying to beat you out because most gamers , you know , they 're gamers ! they 're strategizing , figuring it out .
Sony
ORG
plans
100,000
CARDINAL
more
each week
DATE
, a fraction of the current demand . With that magic combination of high demand and short supply ,
PlayStation 2
PRODUCT
is assured to be this
year
DATE
's must have , ca n't get
Christmas
DATE
gift . I know my sons are hyped up with this , but they are with every game release . This is the latest chapter in the industry 's game of leapfrog .
Last year
DATE
,
Sega
PERSON
's
Dreamcast
LOC
blew minds and the competition , and
next year
DATE
,
Microsoft
ORG
promises its X-box game console and
Nintendo
ORG
will release its next - generation machine , the
GameCube
PRODUCT
.
Computer gaming is mainstream . Age groups span the generations , and it 's absolutely no longer guys only .
Greg Lefevre
PERSON
,
CNN
ORG
,
San Francisco
GPE
.
Nine
CARDINAL
people were injured in
Gaza
GPE
when gunmen opened fire on an
Israeli
NORP
bus . The passengers were off - duty
Israeli
NORP
security workers . Witnesses say the shots came from the
Palestinian
NORP
international airport .
Israeli
NORP
Prime Minister
Ehud Barak
PERSON
closed down the
two - year - old
DATE
airport in response to the incident .
Palestinians
NORP
criticized the move . They regard the airport as a symbol of emerging statehood .
A runway mix - up apparently caused
Tuesday
DATE
's plane crash in
Taiwan
GPE
. Investigators say the
Singapore Airlines
ORG
jet should have been on runway
Five - Left
TIME
, but instead , it was on
Five - Right
ORG
, a parallel runway . The plane hit construction equipment . That 's part of it right there . Investigators say they do n't know why it was on the wrong runway . It was raining at the time . They hope the plane 's flight recorder will help solve the mystery . The pilot is being kept in
Taiwan
GPE
for questioning .
81
CARDINAL
people were killed in the accident , which took place amid poor visibility and driving rain .
The airport has no ground radar , so air traffic controllers could not have known the pilot took a wrong turn .
Two
CARDINAL
Americans
NORP
have won this
year
DATE
's
Nobel Prize
WORK_OF_ART
for economics .
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
ORG
is giving the award to
James J. Heckman
PERSON
of
the University of Chicago and
ORG
University of California at Berkeley
ORG
professor
Daniel L. McFadden
PERSON
. The
Academy
ORG
says it 's for their theories and methods widely used in analyzing work and living habits . They will share the prize award of $
915,000
MONEY
. The economics prize is the
fourth
ORDINAL
in a week of awards announced by
the Nobel Academy
ORG
. A special heavy - lift ship is due to arrive in
Yemen
GPE
tomorrow
DATE
. It will carry the damaged "
USS Cole
PRODUCT
" back to
the United States
GPE
.
The
October
DATE
attack on the "
Cole
PRODUCT
" killed
17
CARDINAL
sailors . A toward
U.S. Army
ORG
general and
U.S. Navy
ORG
admiral have arrived in
Aden
GPE
. They 'll assist in the investigation of the bombing . They will also review military procedures and intelligence operations in
Yemen
GPE
. Checking the top stories -- this is one of the busiest travel
weekends of the year
DATE
.
AAA
ORG
estimates
61 million
CARDINAL
Americans
NORP
will be heading somewhere between
this weekend
DATE
and
New Year 's
EVENT
. That 's
two million
CARDINAL
more than
last year
DATE
.
Holiday
DATE
shoppers across the
U.S.
GPE
are flocking to malls
this weekend
DATE
to complete their lists and find
last - minute
TIME
items . In spite of warnings that consumers are spending less this season , officials from
the National Retail Federation
ORG
say most merchants will turn in a respectable holiday showing .
And President
Clinton
PERSON
met with
Israeli
NORP
and
Palestinian
NORP
peace negotiators
today
DATE
to decide his next move in pushing for a
Mideast
LOC
peace agreement . Lawyers in
Texas
GPE
are trying to keep their client from becoming the
300th
PRODUCT
person executed in the state since
1982
DATE
, when
Texas
GPE
resumed capital punishment . They 're asking
the Supreme Court
ORG
to block
tonight
TIME
's scheduled execution of
Delma Banks
ORG
. Banks was convicted of shooting and killing a
16 - year - old
DATE
at a park in
1980
DATE
. His lawyers say his trial attorney did a bad job and the prosecutors improperly kept
African - Americans
NORP
off his jury . He 'd be the
11th
ORDINAL
killer put to death in
Texas
GPE
this year
DATE
. The
two
CARDINAL
main suspects in the bombing of
the " USS Cole
PRODUCT
" could be charged as soon as
Tuesday
DATE
, according to
Associated Press
ORG
. The news agency is quoting a
Yemeni
NORP
source who says the investigators have wrapped up their questioning and will hand the case over to prosecutors .
The suspects could be executed if they are convicted of the attack . The explosion in
Aden Harbor
FAC
killed
17
CARDINAL
U.S.
GPE
sailors and injured another
39 last month
DATE
.
U.S.
GPE
investigators suspect the terrorist bombing is the result of an international conspiracy . The damaged "
USS Cole
PRODUCT
" comes home
today
DATE
. It 's due to arrive in
Pascagoula
GPE
,
Mississippi
GPE
,
this morning
TIME
. The destroyer was christened there
five years ago
DATE
. Repairs are expected to cost
about $ 240 million
MONEY
.
Yemeni
NORP
and
U.S.
GPE
authorities are still investigating the
October
DATE
bombing .
17
CARDINAL
sailors were killed .
Yemen
GPE
's Prime Minister says
at least three
CARDINAL
Yemenis
NORP
will go on trial
next month
DATE
in connection with the attack . They 're suspected of belonging to an international terrorist network . The trial of
two
CARDINAL
Libyans
NORP
accused of bombing
Pam Am Flight 103
PRODUCT
over
Lockerbie
GPE
,
Scotland
GPE
, is entering its final stage . The trial resumed in the
Netherlands
GPE
today
DATE
after a
month
DATE
- long delay . Testimony abruptly came to a close when one of the defendants scrapped plans to take the witness stand . Closing arguments are scheduled for
tomorrow
DATE
. The
two
CARDINAL
men are charged with murder and conspiracy in connection with the
1988
DATE
bombing that killed
270
CARDINAL
people .
Nickelodeon
ORG
's latest cartoon series is about a boy with a disability .
Gloria Hillard
PERSON
takes a look at what the show "
Pelswick
PERSON
" means to some children . Imagine being able to visit
Nickelodeon
ORG
to see how they make cartoons . Here 's the Beavers and all his friends . Cool . That 's awesome .
15 - year - old
DATE
Nicky Barischoff
LOC
and
12 - year - old
DATE
Allison Gray
PERSON
are best friends . They 're also each other 's biggest fans . She 's the singer . Like , I ca n't sing . I 'm not going to even try .
She 's the writer . I am the writer .
Nicky
GPE
and
Allison
PERSON
also have cerebral palsy , and their visit to
Nickelodeon
ORG
coincides with the network 's debut of "
Pelswick
PERSON
, " an animated series about a
13 - year - old
DATE
boy in a wheelchair . As much as I 'd love to spend
every day
DATE
after school sucking up to teachers instead of hanging with my friends , I do n't want this job . The series is created by nationally syndicated cartoonist and author
John Callahan
PERSON
, who is a quadriplegic . We just felt he understands how to reach people and how to reach kids . I think kids lead the way . Kids lead the way in diversity , because they 're very accepting of other kids in terms of who they are , and who they really are as people . We 're normal people , and that 's what
Pelswick
PERSON
was , he was just a normal kid .
Fox TV 's
ORG
"
Malcolm
PERSON
in the Middle " also features a young boy who uses a wheelchair .
These are good cookies . Yeah . They 're good .
Allison
PERSON
says she hopes there will be other shows that feature kids like her . That way -- I 'll just be another kid in a classroom . The
two
CARDINAL
best friends met in acting school . Now they 've got a chance to see what it 's like to be a voice actor for cartoons . Like anyone hearing their own voice for the
first
ORDINAL
time , well , they giggled a lot . This is so weird .
And when they heard their cartoon voices -- How are your voices sounding in there ? I 'm so working here . My dream is to become a playwright , an actress . I would love to be a diva . And those dreams were a little closer to coming true
this day
DATE
, and with shows like "
Pelswick
PERSON
, " they say -- well , when they get a little older , maybe people wo n't even look down
first
ORDINAL
. I 'm not down here . I 'm up here .
Gloria Hillard
PERSON
, "
CNN Entertainment News
ORG
, "
Los Angeles
GPE
.
The chief
U.N.
ORG
war crimes prosecutor has arrived in
Yugoslavia
GPE
to demand the extradition of former President
Slobodan Milosevic
PERSON
.
Carla Ponte
PERSON
is expected to meet
today
DATE
with
Milosevic
PERSON
's successor ,
Vojislav Kostunica
PERSON
, a critic of
the War Crimes Tribunal
ORG
at The Hague . He 's suggested
Milosevic
PERSON
and others stand trial in a
Yugoslav
NORP
court .
Kostunica
PERSON
said
Milosevic
PERSON
and others should be tried in a
Yugoslav
NORP
court .
Al Gore
PERSON
wo n't be the next
U.S.
GPE
President , but he has a slim chance of becoming the next President at
Harvard
ORG
.
Gore
PERSON
holds a degree from the university , and is
one
CARDINAL
of
about 500
CARDINAL
people nominated for the job . A school official talked about the Vice President 's chances during an interview with "
the Boston Globe
ORG
. " He says it 's unlikely
Gore
PERSON
will be selected , because he does n't have enough experience in the academic world .
President
Clinton
PERSON
is going prime time
tonight
TIME
to bid farewell to
Americans
NORP
in a televised address . The speech is being billed as a thank - you to the people who twice voted him into
the White House
ORG
and supported him even at his lowest moments .
Yesterday
DATE
, Mr.
Clinton
PERSON
spoke to supporters in his home state of
Arkansas
GPE
. It was the last of several speeches he has made in
recent weeks
DATE
to his backers across the country . Armed conflict in the
Balkans
LOC
puts an international spotlight on a
Serb
NORP
leader .
Bob Glascoff
PERSON
looks at
Slobodan Milosevic 's
PERSON
rise to power , and his recent political setback , in
today
DATE
's edition of "
Headliners
WORK_OF_ART
. " In
December of 1990
DATE
,
Slobodan Milosevic
PERSON
is elected President in
Serbia
GPE
's
first
ORDINAL
free elections in
50 years
DATE
.
Milosevic
PERSON
headed
Yugoslavia
GPE
's state - run gas company and was President of a major
Belgrade
GPE
bank climbing the political ladder as a
Communist
NORP
technocrat . He used his rising popularity amongst the
Serb
NORP
people to oust former mentor
Ivan Stambolic
PERSON
and take over as President of the
Serbian
NORP
republic .
His brutal efforts to create a
Serb
NORP
- dominated
Yugoslavia
GPE
earned him the nickname " Butcher of the
Balkans
LOC
. " Many speculated that
Milosevic
PERSON
, whose parents and uncle committed suicide , might be mentally unbalanced himself . Constitutionally barred from serving a
third
ORDINAL
term as
Serbian
NORP
President , he clung to power by having the federal parliament elect him President of
Yugoslavia
GPE
.
Milosevic
PERSON
was defeated by opposition leader
Vojislave Kostunica
PERSON
in presidential elections
this year
DATE
, but refused to accept the results . Faced with massive demonstrations and
Russia
GPE
's backing of
Kostunica
PERSON
, he agreed to step down in
October
DATE
. With "
Headliners
WORK_OF_ART
, " I 'm
Bob Glascoff
PERSON
. In view of the important characteristics of warfare in a modern information rich environment , a training base in
the Lanzhou Military Command
ORG
has taken care to create a complex electromagnetic environment when organizing army exercises , in order to improve through training the military 's ability to win battles in an information - rich environment . During one recently organized exercise , to create the electromagnetic environment for the blue force 's command and communication system , they used the method which combines real and simulated set - up , aerial and land - based , fixed and tracking , and real and fake measures . Using advanced electronic information technology and simulation technology , they produced things like mimic radar communication vehicles and mimic satellites communication vehicles that simulate electromagnetic properties .
They placed actual objects inside the blue force 's positions to mimic the electromagnetic environment that various kinds of weaponry would create during a battle . Through the combined operation of many techniques , they chiefly worked to create a relatively complex electromagnetic battlefield for the army . Against a complex electromagnetic environment and countermeasures , they guided the army to carry out exercises in electronic reconnaissance and anti-reconnaissance , jamming and anti-jamming , suppression and anti-suppression actions and other operations . This effectively trained and improved the army 's ability to carry out multiple combat operations in an information - rich environment .
As many as 10,000
CARDINAL
residential households and work units have been left without heating since
the early hours of December 3
TIME
over a total area of
four million square meters
QUANTITY
in the
Shuimogou
ORG
and
Tianshan
GPE
districts of
Urumqi
GPE
,
Xinjiang
GPE
, because there was a breakdown in the equipment of the electricity company responsible for the task of providing heat . According to monitoring readings taken by the local meteorological department , over
the last two days
DATE
, the lowest temperature at
night
TIME
in
Urumqi
GPE
has been
about 14 degrees Celsius below
QUANTITY
zero . The lack of heating has caused a lot of inconvenience for people 's lives . This is a student at
Xinjiang Education Institute
ORG
, wrapped in a comforter and reading a book in the dormitory . And this is a woman using an electric heater to keep warm at home in a residential building on
Guangming Road in Urumqi
FAC
.
In
the last two days
DATE
, all of the major electrical appliance stores in
Urumqi
GPE
have also seen electric heaters selling out . It is said that the reason for the accident was a breakdown in the boiler of
Xinjiang Huadian Weihuliang Power Generation Co. Ltd
ORG
, which is responsible for the task of providing heat . After the accident occurred ,
80
CARDINAL
workers have been carrying out emergency repair , working in shifts round the clock . These are emergency workers clearing away the fragments in the boiler room . By
10:00 this morning
TIME
nearly 10,000
CARDINAL
residential households and offices in work units in
Urumqi
GPE
had been without heat in temperatures far below zero for over
80 hours
TIME
. The latest news is that the heating may be restored at
about 6:00 this afternoon
TIME
. Yes , well ,
yesterday
DATE
the Chinese Foreign Ministry
ORG
, uh , at this routine press conference , especially answered reporters with regard to this kind of questions . Well ,
the Chinese Foreign Ministry
ORG
did not disclose specific content of the trilateral and bilateral meetings , uh , among
China
GPE
, the
US
GPE
, and
North Korea
GPE
held
yesterday
DATE
. However ,
the Chinese Foreign Ministry
ORG
said that the top priority for the current
six
CARDINAL
- party talks is to put the various parties back on a track of dialogue and negotiation .
And at present the
Chinese
NORP
side also hopes very much that the various parties can make use of this rare opportunity for contact to %pw express everyone 's ideas and concerns . Well , at the same time , uh , with everyone valuing this opportunity for contact as well , they can work together to promote these
six
CARDINAL
- party talks , to resume the talks as early as possible and to achieve substantive progress . Yet as for the specific time that the talks will resume , which is the %pw , common concern of everyone ,
Foreign Ministry
ORG
spokesperson
Jiang Yu
PERSON
did not give a clear answer . She only said that currently
China
GPE
, the
US
GPE
,
North Korea
GPE
,
South Korea
GPE
, and
Japan
GPE
, among other parties , are all engaged in active consultation . And as for the attitude of
US
GPE
, which everyone is interested in ,
yesterday
DATE
, er , head of the
US
GPE
delegation
Hill
PERSON
, er , on his way from the
US
GPE
embassy to his hotel , uh , did not disclose to the media some of the results of his talks
yesterday
DATE
. But everyone is interested in whether his schedule will continue
today
DATE
. Yet according to a disclosure by the
US
GPE
embassy ,
Hill
ORG
may leave
Beijing
GPE
today
DATE
, so everyone is still focused on a
US
GPE
announcement . According to a
BBC
ORG
report on
the nineteenth
DATE
, a study group composed of
American
NORP
and
Russian
NORP
scientists recently discovered several kinds of microbes composed of special substances . Following their research , the scientists made a bold supposition : that some of the earliest simple life forms on
Earth
LOC
were very likely attached to meteorites from
Mars
LOC
that came to
Earth
LOC
.
In their research , the
American
NORP
and
Russian
NORP
scientists discovered that these special microbes can live even after being exposed to radiation
thousands
CARDINAL
of times greater than the radiation the human body can withstand . Because of this , they think that these special and rare microbes have already gained some kind of ability to resist powerful radiation while maintaining moisture . The scientists do not believe that any life forms originated on
Earth
LOC
would be able to develop these special capabilities . Because there is evidence indicating that there have not been large fluctuations in radiation levels on
Earth
LOC
during
the past four billion years
TIME
, they think that these super-microbes could have originated from
Mars
LOC
and come to
Earth
LOC
as they hitched a ride on meteorites , and ultimately become the earliest simple life forms on
Earth
LOC
. The results of their research will be published in the latest edition of the journal Astrobiology . However , many other scientists have nevertheless expressed doubts on this . Some scholars have pointed out that the DNA of these super-microbes does not differ in many ways from regular microbes . Other scientists have also pointed out that of
the tens of thousands
MONEY
of meteorites already found on
Earth
LOC
,
only twenty or
CARDINAL
so came from
Mars
LOC
. Even if these super-microbes had existed on
Mars
LOC
, the possibility that they hitched a ride to
Earth
LOC
on meteorites is not very great either .
On
Friday
DATE
, residents of the
Sadr
GPE
district in the
Iraqi
NORP
capital
Baghdad
GPE
held a funeral service for
over 200
CARDINAL
people who died in
the previous day 's
DATE
series of explosions . After the bomb attacks happened , the
Baghdad
GPE
government had resolved to implement an indefinite curfew . In
the pre-dawn hours
TIME
,
several hundred
CARDINAL
residents of
Baghdad
GPE
's
al - Sadr
PERSON
district participated in the commemoration ceremony for victims of bomb attacks .
Baghdad
GPE
police said that the number of deaths resulting from the series of car bomb attacks had increased to
202
CARDINAL
, and over
250
CARDINAL
people got injured . This is the most serious car bomb attack incident that has happened in
Baghdad
GPE
this month
DATE
. After the bomb attack occured , and since
the evening
TIME
of that day , an indefinite curfew has been imposed in
Baghdad City
GPE
.
Baghdad Airport
FAC
has now been closed . Authorities have also closed southern
Basra
GPE
's airport and seaport .
Iraqi
NORP
Prime Minister
Al - Maliki
PERSON
has called on the citizens to exercise restraint . In a televised statement , he condemned those separation actions aimed at destroying the national unity .
Community leaders of
Iraqi
NORP
Shiite
NORP
,
Sunni
NORP
, and
Kurds
NORP
have also held a joint press conference to appeal to the public to remain calm . Hello , everyone . This is the
Pakistani
NORP
presidential government . On
the morning of the 24th
TIME
, local time ,
Chinese
NORP
State
ORG
President
Hu Jintao
PERSON
held talks here with
Pakistani
NORP
President
Musharraf
PERSON
. Both sides heaped praise on the all - weather friendship and comprehensive cooperation between
China
GPE
and
Pakistan
GPE
and stated in concert that they would jointly strive to continuously enrich and flesh out the content of the strategic cooperative partnership between the
two
CARDINAL
countries as well as deepen and expand pragmatic and mutually beneficial cooperation in all fields .
Hu Jintao
PERSON
said
China
GPE
and
Pakistan
GPE
were good neighbors , good friends , good partners and good brothers . In
the fifty - five years
DATE
since diplomatic relations were established ,
Sino - Pakistani
NORP
relations have withstood the test of time and a changing international situation , erected an all - weather friendship and developed a comprehensive cooperation . The fruits of the exchange and cooperation between the
two
CARDINAL
sides in politics , economics and trade , military affairs , technology , culture , education and other spheres have been remarkable . In international and regional affairs they have coordinated closely and supported each other .
China
GPE
is grateful to
Pakistan
GPE
for the long - term and treasured support it has given
China
GPE
on
Taiwan
GPE
,
Tibet
GPE
, human rights , combating terrorist powers and other issues .
China
GPE
will support
Pakistan
GPE
as always as it strives to safeguard its independence , sovereignty and territorial integrity .
NBC
ORG
's
David Gregory
PERSON
is at his post as well in
Austin
GPE
,
Texas
GPE
.
David
PERSON
any reaction from the
Bush
PERSON
team on the
Democrats
NORP
' plan to contest the vote in
Miami - Dade
GPE
? Well ,
John
PERSON
, there has been reaction from the
Bush
PERSON
team . You know , this decision by the
Gore
PERSON
campaign , a refusal to concede even if they do not prevail in the manual recounts under way certainly carries some political risk , but the
Gore
PERSON
team
tonight
TIME
defends the decision , saying that fellow
Democrats
NORP
and the public would not only accept but demand what they call a fair and accurate recount in all the relevant counties . The
Bush
PERSON
team , responding quickly saying there would not be such support and that in that scenario
Gore
PERSON
could only be seen as a sore loser . Despite the holiday , there is no letup in the fight for
Florida
GPE
. A holiday legal victory to be thankful for ,
George
PERSON
and
Laura Bush
PERSON
, all smiles in
Austin
GPE
today
DATE
before a pot luck
Thanksgiving
DATE
meal with their twin daughters and friends .
The
Texas
GPE
governor makes time for recreation with a morning jog and prepares for some fishing at his ranch
this weekend
DATE
. The Vice President out of sight
today
DATE
at his residence , aides saying the entire family together for a meal and football on TV . While the
Gore
PERSON
menu remains a family secret , the
Bush
PERSON
clan all to happy to share some of his favorite fare --
jalapeno pecan
PERSON
cornbread stuffing and coconut cake . For vice presidential candidate
Dick Cheney
PERSON
,
turkey
GPE
in the hospital with his wife and daughter
this afternoon
TIME
. After suffering a mild heart attack
yesterday
DATE
, his
fourth
ORDINAL
, doctors say
today
DATE
he 's recovering well .
Cheney
PERSON
gets a checkup call from Governor
Bush
PERSON
and still expects to be released
as early as tomorrow
DATE
, and
today
DATE
, President
Clinton
PERSON
cautiously speaks out about the
Florida
GPE
vote fight , saying everyone should , " let the process play out . " I want everybody who tried to vote who legally voted to have their vote count , including service people . Everybody .
Tonight
TIME
for both
George Bush
PERSON
and
Al Gore
PERSON
and their war rooms all their advisers , this really comes down to a numbers game . Everybody keeping a sharp eye on these recount tallies and on
Sunday
DATE
's deadline at
5:00 p.m.
TIME
.
John
PERSON
?
NBC
ORG
's
David Gregory
PERSON
in
Austin
GPE
.
David
PERSON
, thank you . Up next , from recounts to -- As we heard from
David Gregory
PERSON
,
one
CARDINAL
of Governor
Bush
PERSON
's main themes in
these last days
DATE
of the campaign is getting rid of partisan gridlock in
Washington
GPE
, which was exactly what the President was talking about
today
DATE
-- an attempt to reopen debate on a
$ 240 billion
MONEY
tax cut plan , saying the version
House
ORG
Republicans
NORP
passed is unacceptable , because it is unfair , according to the President , to children and seniors . Instead of meeting us on common ground , instead of working with
the White House
ORG
or congressional
Democrats
NORP
, the
Republican
NORP
leadership closed its doors to compromise -- literally closed the doors to compromise . They crafted their own partisan tax package and passed it
last night
TIME
on a party - line vote .
Republican
NORP
leaders for their part said reopening the tax debate is not now realistic and the tax cut bill is probably tombed . They are angry that the President is threatening to veto it saying it 's wrong to have political budget battles right before the election .
And
one
CARDINAL
of the longest running struggles for international justice reached a milestone
today
DATE
of sorts , when a
Scottish
NORP
court , meeting in the
Netherlands
GPE
, finally officially found someone guilty in the
1988
DATE
bombing that brought down
Pan Am Flight 103
PRODUCT
. He 's a
Libyan
NORP
intelligence agent and as
NBC
ORG
's
Jim Maceda
PERSON
reports
tonight
TIME
from the court , many of the families of the victims think the verdict did n't go far enough .
Today
DATE
was
D - Day
DATE
in the murder trial which in the end brought some relief . For grieving families , only a partial victory . After
12 years
DATE
of waiting and a
nine - month
DATE
trial , family members of some of the victims of
Pan Am Flight 103
PRODUCT
come to this special
Scottish
NORP
courthouse in the
Netherlands
GPE
one
CARDINAL
last time to hear the verdict against
two
CARDINAL
Libyan
NORP
defendants charged with murder . A split decision for
Lamen Khalifa Fhimah
ORG
, aquittal , but
Abdel Basset
PERSON
Ali Al - megrahi
PERSON
found guilty as charged . The court ruled this senior
Libyan
NORP
intelligence agent planted the bomb that killed
270
CARDINAL
, mostly
Americans
NORP
, when the plane bound for
New York
GPE
exploded over
Lockerbie
GPE
,
Scotland
GPE
. Inside the courtroom
today
DATE
, the elation overwhelming . A good many of the relatives gasped .
There was a big intake of breath .
Jim Swire
PERSON
, whose daughter died in the
1988
DATE
crash , collapses . He later recovered , blaming stress . But
Al - megrahi 's
PERSON
sentence ,
20 years
DATE
in jail , too light for
Brian Flynn
PERSON
. His brother was on
Flight 103
PRODUCT
. It was n't
one
CARDINAL
murder it was
270
CARDINAL
people he murdered . Frustration too that
Moammar Khaddafi
PERSON
was immune from prosecution ,
one
CARDINAL
of the ground rules here . You get the operatives . You do n't always get the higherups . Reaction in
Libya
GPE
, where many followed the trial , mixed .
Some anger in the streets , but government officials downplaying the conviction , calling for an end to international sanctions . Not yet , says President
George W. Bush
PERSON
, at
the White House
FAC
today
DATE
, demanding that
Khaddafi
NORP
meet certain conditions
first
ORDINAL
, to accept responsibility for this act , and to compensate the families . But even that would fall short for those who have lost loved ones .
Tonight
TIME
, some of those families made it clear their battle is not over to get to the truth and however difficult , punish the real authors of this crime .
Tom
PERSON
? Thanks very much ,
NBC
ORG
's
Jim Maceda
PERSON
tonight
TIME
for the trial of the
Lockerbie
GPE
103
CARDINAL
Pan Am
ORG
crash . Recapping the developments of this disturbing day in
the Middle East
LOC
and
the Arabian Peninsula
LOC
--
at least six
CARDINAL
American
NORP
sailors are dead ,
11
CARDINAL
still missing and
35
CARDINAL
injured after what intelligence experts say was a well - planned terrorist bombing that ripped a
20 x 40 - foot
QUANTITY
hole in the
Navy
ORG
destroyer
" USS Cole
PRODUCT
" in the
Yemeni
NORP
port of
Aden
GPE
. The ship was there for refueling . President
Clinton
PERSON
, vowing retaliation .
Kenneth J. Thygerson
PERSON
, who was named president of this thrift holding company in
August
DATE
, resigned , citing personal reasons . Mr.
Thygerson
PERSON
said he had planned to travel between the job in
Denver
GPE
and his
San Diego
GPE
home , but has found the commute too difficult to continue . A new president was n't named .
British Aerospace PLC
ORG
and
France
GPE
's
Thomson - CSF S.A.
ORG
said they are nearing an agreement to merge their guided - missile divisions , greatly expanding collaboration between the
two
CARDINAL
defense contractors . The
50 - 50
CARDINAL
joint venture , which may be dubbed
Eurodynamics
LOC
, would have combined
annual
DATE
sales of
at least # 1.4 billion
MONEY
-LRB-
$ 2.17 billion
MONEY
-RRB- and would be among the world 's largest missile makers . After
two years
DATE
of talks , plans for the venture are sufficiently advanced for the companies to seek
French
NORP
and
British
NORP
government clearance . The companies hope for a final agreement by
year - end
DATE
. The venture would strengthen the rapidly growing ties between the
two
CARDINAL
companies , and help make them a leading force in
European
NORP
defense contracting .
In
recent months
DATE
, a string of cross-border mergers and joint ventures have reshaped the once - balkanized world of
European
NORP
arms manufacture . Already ,
British Aerospace
ORG
and
French
NORP
government - controlled
Thomson - CSF
ORG
collaborate on a
British
NORP
missile contract and on an air - traffic control radar system .
Just last week
DATE
they announced they may make a joint bid to buy
Ferranti International Signal PLC
ORG
, a smaller
British
NORP
defense contractor rocked by alleged accounting fraud at a
U.S.
GPE
unit . The sudden romance of
British Aerospace
ORG
and
Thomson - CSF
ORG
-- traditionally bitter competitors for
Middle East
LOC
and Third World weapons contracts -- is stirring controversy in
Western Europe 's
LOC
defense industry . Most threatened by closer
British Aerospace - Thomson
ORG
ties would be their respective national rivals , including
Matra S.A.
ORG
in
France
GPE
and
Britain
GPE
's
General Electric Co. PLC
ORG
. But neither
Matra
ORG
nor GEC -- unrelated to
Stamford
GPE
,
Conn.
GPE
- based
General Electric Co.
ORG
-- are sitting quietly by as their competitors join forces .
Yesterday
DATE
, a source close to
GEC
ORG
confirmed that his company may join the
Ferranti
ORG
fight , as part of a possible consortium that would bid against
British Aerospace
ORG
and
Thomson - CSF
ORG
. Companies with which
GEC
ORG
has had talks about a possible joint
Ferranti
ORG
bid include
Matra
ORG
,
Britain
GPE
's
Dowty Group PLC
ORG
,
West Germany 's
GPE
Daimler - Benz AG
ORG
, and
France
GPE
's
Dassault
ORG
group . But it may be
weeks
DATE
before
GEC
ORG
and its potential partners decide whether to bid , the source indicated .
GEC
ORG
plans
first
ORDINAL
to study
Ferranti
ORG
's financial accounts , which auditors recently said included
# 215 million
MONEY
in fictitious contracts at a
U.S.
GPE
unit ,
International Signal & Control Group
ORG
, with which
Ferranti
ORG
merged
last year
DATE
.
Also , any
GEC
ORG
bid might be blocked by
British
NORP
antitrust regulators ;
Ferranti
ORG
is
GEC
ORG
's main competitor on several key defense - electronics contracts , and its purchase by
GEC
ORG
may heighten
British Defense Ministry
ORG
worries about concentration in the country 's defense industry . A consortium bid , however , would diminish
GEC
ORG
's direct role in
Ferranti
ORG
and might consequently appease ministry officials . A
British Aerospace
ORG
spokeswoman appeared unperturbed by the prospect of a fight with GEC for
Ferranti
ORG
: " Competition is the name of the game , " she said .
At least one
CARDINAL
potential
GEC
ORG
partner ,
Matra
ORG
, insists it is n't interested in
Ferranti
ORG
. " We have nothing to say about this affair , which does n't concern us , " a
Matra
ORG
official said
Sunday
DATE
. The missile venture , the
British Aerospace
ORG
spokeswoman said , is a needed response to the " new environment " in defense contracting . For both
Thomson
PERSON
and
British Aerospace
ORG
, earnings in their home markets have come under pressure from increasingly tight - fisted defense ministries ; and
Middle East
LOC
sales , a traditional mainstay for both companies ' exports , have been hurt by
five years
DATE
of weak oil prices . The venture 's importance for
Thomson
ORG
is great .
Thomson
PERSON
feels the future of its defense business depends on building cooperation with other
Europeans
NORP
. The
European
NORP
defense industry is consolidating ; for instance ,
West Germany 's
GPE
Siemens AG
ORG
recently joined
GEC
ORG
in a takeover of
Britain
GPE
's
Plessey Co.
ORG
, and
Daimler - Benz
ORG
agreed to buy
Messerschmitt - Boelkow Blohm G.m.b
ORG
. H .
In missiles ,
Thomson
ORG
is already overshadowed by
British Aerospace
ORG
and by its home rival ,
France
GPE
's
Aerospatiale S.A.
ORG
; to better compete ,
Thomson
ORG
officials say , they need a partnership . To justify
50 - 50
CARDINAL
ownership of the planned venture ,
Thomson
ORG
would make a cash payment to
British Aerospace
ORG
.
Annual
DATE
revenue of
British Aerospace 's
ORG
missile business is
about # 950 million
MONEY
, a
Thomson
ORG
spokesman said .
British Aerospace 's
ORG
chief missile products include its
17 - year - old
DATE
family of
Rapier
ORG
surface - to - air missiles .
Thomson
ORG
missile products , with
about half
CARDINAL
British Aerospace 's
ORG
annual
DATE
revenue , include the
Crotale
ORG
surface - to - air missile family . The following issues were recently filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission
ORG
:
American Cyanamid Co.
ORG
, offering of
1,250,000
CARDINAL
common shares , via
Merrill Lynch Capital Markets
ORG
.
Limited Inc.
ORG
, offering of
up to $ 300 million
MONEY
of debt securities and warrants .
Nuveen California Performance Plus Municipal Fund Inc.
ORG
, initial offering of
five million
CARDINAL
common shares , via
Alex .
PERSON
Brown & Sons Inc.
ORG
,
John Nuveen & Co.
ORG
,
Prudential - Bache Capital Funding
ORG
, and
Bateman Eichler
PERSON
,
Hill Richards
PERSON
.
PacifiCare Health Systems Inc.
ORG
, proposed offering of
1.5 million
CARDINAL
common shares , of which
700,000
CARDINAL
shares will be offered by
PacifiCare
ORG
and
800,000
CARDINAL
shares by
UniHealth America Inc
ORG
. -LRB-
PacifiCare
ORG
's
71 %
PERCENT
-RRB- , via
Dillon , Read & Co. Inc.
ORG
,
Goldman , Sachs & Co.
ORG
and
Dean Witter Reynolds Inc
ORG
.
Pricor Inc.
ORG
, offering of
one million
CARDINAL
new shares of common stock and
300,000
CARDINAL
shares by holders , via
Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.
ORG
and
J.C. Bradford & Co
ORG
.
Trans World Airlines Inc.
ORG
, offering of
$ 150 million
MONEY
senior notes , via
Drexel Burnham
ORG
. Pension funds , insurers and other behemoths of the investing world said they began scooping up stocks during
Friday
DATE
's market rout . And they plan to buy more
today
DATE
. Rightly or wrongly , many giant institutional investors appear to be fighting the latest war by applying the lesson they learned in the
October 1987
DATE
crash : Buying at the bottom pays off . To be sure , big investors might put away their checkbooks in a hurry if stocks open sharply lower
today
DATE
. They could still panic and bail out of the market . But their
1987
DATE
performance indicates that they wo n't abandon stocks unless conditions get far worse .
" Last time , we got rewarded for going out and buying stocks when the panic was the worst , " said
John W. Rogers
PERSON
, president of
Chicago
GPE
- based
Ariel Capital Management Inc.
ORG
, which manages
$ 1.1 billion
MONEY
of stocks . Mr.
Rogers
PERSON
spent
half
CARDINAL
his cash on hand
Friday
DATE
for " our favorite stocks that have fallen apart . " He expects to invest the rest if the market weakens further .
Denver
GPE
- based portfolio manager
James Craig
PERSON
was n't daunted when
Friday
DATE
's rout shaved
$ 40 million
MONEY
from the value of the
$ 752 million
MONEY
Janus Fund he oversees . " I waited to make sure all the program trades had kicked through , " he said . Then he jumped into the market : " I spent
$ 30 million
MONEY
in
the last half - hour
DATE
. " Other money managers also opened their wallets . " I was buying at the close -LRB-
Friday
DATE
-RRB- and I 'll be buying again because I know we 're getting good value , " said
Frederick A. Moran
PERSON
, president of
Moran Asset Management Inc.
ORG
,
Greenwich
GPE
,
Conn
PERSON
. " There is no justification on the fundamental level for this crash . "
Unlike mutual funds , which can be forced to sell stockholdings when investors rush to withdraw money , big investors such as pension funds and insurance companies can decide to ride out market storms without jettisoning stock . Most often , they do just that , because stocks have proved to be the best - performing long - term investment , attracting
about $ 1 trillion
MONEY
from pension funds alone . " If you bought after the crash , you did very very well off the bottom , " said
Stephen B. Timbers
PERSON
, chief investment officer of
Chicago
GPE
- based
Kemper Financial Services Inc
ORG
. The
$ 56 billion
MONEY
California Public Employees Retirement System
ORG
, for one , added
$ 1 billion
MONEY
to its stock portfolio
two years ago
DATE
. " The last crash taught institutional investors that they have to be long - term holders , and that they ca n't react to short - term events , good or bad , " said
Stephen L. Nesbitt
PERSON
, senior vice president for the pension consultants
Wilshire Associates
ORG
in
Santa Monica
GPE
,
Calif
GPE
. " Those that pulled out -LRB- of stocks
-RRB-
PERSON
regretted it , " he said , " so I doubt you 'll see any significant changes " in institutional portfolios as a result of
Friday
DATE
's decline . Stocks , as measured by
the Standard & Poor 's
ORG
500
CARDINAL
- stock index , have been stellar performers
this year
DATE
, rising
27.97 %
PERCENT
before
Friday
DATE
's plunge , excluding dividends . Even
Friday
DATE
's slump leaves investors ahead
more than 20 %
PERCENT
, well above the
annual
DATE
average for stocks over
several decades
DATE
. " You could go down
400
CARDINAL
points and still have
a good year
DATE
in the market , " said
James D. Awad
PERSON
, president of
New York
GPE
- based
BMI Capital Corp
ORG
. Mr.
Awad
PERSON
, however , worries that the market " could go down
800
CARDINAL
or 900 points in
the next few days
DATE
.
It can happen before you can turn around . " He said he discerns many parallels with
1987
DATE
, including the emphasis on takeover stocks and the re-emergence of computerized program trading . " The only thing you do n't have , " he said , " is the ' portfolio insurance ' phenomenon overlaid on the rest . " Most institutional investors have abandoned the portfolio insurance hedging technique , which is widely thought to have worsened the
1987
DATE
crash . Not really insurance , this tactic was designed to soften the blow of declining stock prices and generate an offsetting profit by selling waves of
S&P
ORG
futures contracts . In its severest test , the
$ 60 billion
MONEY
of portfolio insurance in effect in the
1987
DATE
crash did n't work , as stock buyers disappeared and stock and futures prices became disconnected . Even without portfolio insurance , market conditions were grim
Friday
DATE
, money managers said .
Neil Weisman
PERSON
, whose
New York
GPE
- based
Chilmark Capital Partners
ORG
had converted
85 %
PERCENT
of its
$ 220 million
MONEY
investment pool to cash in
recent months
DATE
, said he was besieged by Wall Street firms
Friday
DATE
asking him to take stock off their hands . " We got calls from big block houses asking us if we want to make bids on anything , " said Mr.
Weisman
PERSON
, who , happy with his returns on investments chalked up earlier , declined the offers . Mr.
Weisman
PERSON
predicts stocks will appear to stabilize in
the next few days
DATE
before declining again , trapping more investors .
" I think it will be a rigor mortis rally , " he said . Meanwhile ,
Friday
DATE
brought a reprieve for money managers whose investment styles had put them at odds with the market rally . Especially gleeful were the short sellers , who have been pounded by this
year
DATE
's market climb . The shorts sell borrowed shares , hoping to profit by replacing them later at a lower price . The nation 's largest short - selling operation is
Feshbach Brothers
ORG
,
Palo Alto
GPE
,
Calif.
GPE
, which said
last May
DATE
that its short positions had shown losses of
10 %
PERCENT
for
the year
DATE
up to that point . All that now has changed . " We 're ahead for
the year
DATE
because of
Friday
DATE
, " said the firm 's
Kurt Feshbach
PERSON
. " We 're not making a killing , but we had a good day .
Japan
GPE
's wholesale prices in
September
DATE
rose
3.3 %
PERCENT
from
a year earlier
DATE
and were up
0.4 %
PERCENT
from
the previous month
DATE
,
the Bank of Japan
ORG
announced
Friday
DATE
.
The wholesale price index stood at
90.1
CARDINAL
, compared with a
1985
DATE
base of
100
CARDINAL
.
September
DATE
's steep rise in producer prices shows that inflation still persists , and the pessimism over interest rates caused by the new price data contributed to the stock market 's plunge
Friday
DATE
. After falling for
three consecutive months
DATE
, the producer price index for finished goods shot up
0.9 %
PERCENT
last month
DATE
,
the Labor Department
ORG
reported
Friday
DATE
, as energy prices jumped after tumbling through
the summer
DATE
. Although the report , which was released before the stock market opened , did n't trigger the
190.58
CARDINAL
- point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average , analysts said it did play a role in the market 's decline . Analysts immediately viewed the price data , the grimmest inflation news in
months
DATE
, as evidence that
the Federal Reserve
ORG
was unlikely to allow interest rates to fall as many investors had hoped . Further fueling the belief that pressures in the economy were sufficient to keep the
Fed
ORG
from easing credit ,
the Commerce Department
ORG
reported
Friday
DATE
that retail sales grew
0.5 %
PERCENT
in
September
DATE
, to
$ 145.21 billion
MONEY
. That rise came on top of a
0.7 %
PERCENT
gain in
August
DATE
, and suggested there is still healthy consumer demand in the economy . " I think the
Friday
DATE
report , combined with the actions of the
Fed
ORG
, weakened the belief that there was going to be an imminent easing of monetary policy , " said
Robert Dederick
PERSON
, chief economist at
Northern Trust Co.
ORG
in
Chicago
GPE
. But economists were divided over the extent of the inflation threat signaled by the new numbers .
" The overall
0.9 %
PERCENT
increase is serious in itself , but what is even worse is that excluding food and energy , the producer price index still increased by
0.7 %
PERCENT
, " said
Gordon Richards
PERSON
, an economist at
the National Association of Manufacturers
ORG
. But
Sung Won Sohn
PERSON
, chief economist at
Norwest Corp.
ORG
in
Minneapolis
GPE
, blamed rising energy prices and the
annual
DATE
autumn
DATE
increase in car prices for most of the
September
DATE
jump . " I would say this is not bad news ; this is a blip , " he said . " The core rate is not really out of line . "
All year
DATE
, energy prices have skewed the producer price index , which measures changes in the prices producers receive for goods . Inflation unquestionably has fallen back from its torrid pace
last winter
DATE
, when a steep run - up in world oil prices sent the index surging at double - digit
annual
DATE
rates . Energy prices then plummeted through
the summer
DATE
, causing the index to decline for
three consecutive months
DATE
. Overall , the index has climbed at a
5.1 %
PERCENT
compound
annual
DATE
rate since
the start of the year
DATE
,
the Labor Department
ORG
said . While far more restrained than the pace at
the beginning of the year
DATE
, that is still a steeper rise than the
4.0 %
PERCENT
increase for all of
1988
DATE
. Moreover , this
year
DATE
's good inflation news may have ended
last month
DATE
, when energy prices zoomed up
6.5 %
PERCENT
after plunging
7.3 %
PERCENT
in
August
DATE
.
Some analysts expect oil prices to remain relatively stable in
the months ahead
DATE
, leaving the future pace of inflation uncertain . Analysts had expected that the climb in oil prices
last month
DATE
would lead to a substantial rise in the producer price index , but the
0.9 %
PERCENT
climb was higher than most anticipated . " I think the resurgence -LCB- in inflation -RCB- is going to continue for
a few months
DATE
, " said
John Mueller
PERSON
, chief economist at
Bell Mueller Cannon
ORG
, a
Washington
GPE
economic forecasting firm . He predicted that inflation will moderate
next year
DATE
, saying that credit conditions are fairly tight world - wide . But
Dirk Van Dongen
PERSON
, president of
the National Association of Wholesaler - Distributors
ORG
, said that
last month 's
DATE
rise " is n't as bad an omen " as the
0.9 %
PERCENT
figure suggests . " If you examine the data carefully , the increase is concentrated in energy and motor vehicle prices , rather than being a broad - based advance in the prices of consumer and industrial goods , " he explained . Passenger car prices jumped
3.8 %
PERCENT
in
September
DATE
, after climbing
0.5 %
PERCENT
in
August
DATE
and declining in
the late spring
DATE
and summer . Many analysts said the
September
DATE
increase was a
one
CARDINAL
- time event , coming as dealers introduced their
1990
DATE
models . Although all the price data were adjusted for normal seasonal fluctuations , car prices rose beyond the customary
autumn
DATE
increase . Prices for capital equipment rose a hefty
1.1 %
PERCENT
in
September
DATE
, while prices for home electronic equipment fell
1.1 %
PERCENT
.
Food prices declined
0.6 %
PERCENT
, after climbing
0.3 %
PERCENT
in
August
DATE
. Meanwhile , the retail sales report showed that car sales rose
0.8 %
PERCENT
in
September
DATE
to
$ 32.82 billion
MONEY
. But at least part of the increase could have come from higher prices , analysts said . Sales at general merchandise stores rose
1.7 %
PERCENT
after declining
0.6 %
PERCENT
in
August
DATE
, while sales of building materials fell
1.8 %
PERCENT
after rising
1.7 %
PERCENT
. Producer prices for intermediate goods grew
0.4 %
PERCENT
in
September
DATE
, after dropping for
three consecutive months
DATE
. Prices for crude goods , an array of raw materials , jumped
1.1 %
PERCENT
after declining
1.9 %
PERCENT
in
August
DATE
and edging up
0.2 %
PERCENT
in
July
DATE
. Here are
the Labor Department 's
ORG
producer price indexes -LRB-
1982
DATE
=
100
CARDINAL
-RRB-
PERSON
for
September
DATE
, before seasonal adjustment , and the percentage changes from
September , 1988
DATE
. In response to your overly optimistic , outdated piece on how long unemployment lasts -LRB- People Patterns ,
Sept. 20
DATE
-RRB- : I am in the communications field , above entry level . I was laid off in
August 1988
DATE
, and after a thorough and exhausting job search , was hired in
August 1989
DATE
.
My unemployment insurance ran out before I found a job ; I found cutbacks and layoffs in many companies . The statistics quoted by the " new "
Census Bureau
ORG
report -LRB- garnered from
1984
DATE
to 1986 -RRB- are out of date , certainly as an average for the
Northeast
LOC
, and possibly for the rest of the country . I think what bothered me most about the piece was that there seemed to be an underlying attitude to tell your readers all is well -- if you 're getting laid off do n't worry , and if you 're unemployed , it 's a seller 's market . To top it off , you captioned the graph showing the average number of
months
DATE
in a job search as " Time Off . " Are you kidding ? Looking for a job was one of the most anxious periods of my life -- and is for most people . Your paper needs a serious reality check .
Reva Levin Cambridge
PERSON
, Mass .
Gulf Resources & Chemical Corp.
ORG
said it agreed to pay
$ 1.5 million
MONEY
as part of an accord with
the Environmental Protection Agency
ORG
regarding an environmental cleanup of a defunct smelter the company formerly operated in
Idaho
GPE
. In
1984
DATE
the
EPA
ORG
notified
Gulf Resources
ORG
, which was a part - owner of the smelter , that it was potentially liable for sharing cleanup costs at the site under the federal
Superfund
LAW
program . The
21 - square - mile
QUANTITY
area is contaminated with lead , zinc and other metals .
Gulf Resources
ORG
earlier this year
DATE
proposed a reorganization plan that would make it a unit of a
Bermuda
PERSON
concern , potentially exempting it from liability for the smelter 's cleanup costs . The company said that as part of its agreement with the
EPA
ORG
, it " made certain voluntary undertakings with respect to intercorporate transactions entered into after the reorganization . " The company , which issued a statement on the agreement
late Friday
DATE
, said that
$ 1 million
MONEY
of the payment was previously provided for in its financial statements and that $
500,000
MONEY
will be recognized in its
1989 third - quarter
DATE
statement . The agreement and consent decree are subject to court approval , the company said .
Gulf Resources
ORG
added that it " will seek to recover equitable contribution from others for both the amount of the settlement and any other liabilities it may incur under the
Superfund
LAW
law . " Under the agreement ,
Gulf
LOC
must give the
U.S.
GPE
government
45 days '
DATE
advance written notice before issuing any dividends on common stock . The company 's net worth can not fall below
$ 185 million
MONEY
after the dividends are issued .
" The terms of that agreement only become effective the date of
Gulf
LOC
's reorganization , which we anticipate will occur sometime in
early 1990
DATE
, " said
Lawrence R. Mehl
PERSON
,
Gulf
GPE
's general counsel . In addition ,
Gulf
GPE
must give the government
20 days '
DATE
advance written notice of any loans exceeding
$ 50 million
MONEY
that are made to the
Bermuda
PERSON
- based holding company .
Gulf
LOC
's net worth after those transaction must be
at least $ 150 million
MONEY
. Separately , the company said it expects to hold a special meeting for shareholders in
early 1990
DATE
to vote on its proposed reorganization . CONCORDE trans-Atlantic flights are $
2,400
MONEY
to
Paris
GPE
and $
3,200
MONEY
to
London
GPE
. In a
Centennial Journal
ORG
article
Oct. 5
DATE
, the fares were reversed . The
Bush
PERSON
administration , trying to blunt growing demands from
Western Europe
LOC
for a relaxation of controls on exports to the
Soviet
NORP
bloc , is questioning whether
Italy
GPE
's Ing . C. Olivetti & Co. supplied militarily valuable technology to the
Soviets
NORP
. Most of the
Western European
NORP
members of
Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls
ORG
, the unofficial forum through which the
U.S.
GPE
and its allies align their export - control policies , are expected to argue for more liberal export rules at a meeting to be held in
Paris
GPE
Oct. 25
DATE
and
26
CARDINAL
.
They plan to press specifically for a relaxation of rules governing exports of machine tools , computers and other high - technology products . But the
Bush
PERSON
administration says it wants to see evidence that all
Cocom
ORG
members are complying fully with existing export - control procedures before it will support further liberalization . To make its point , it is challenging the
Italian
NORP
government to explain reports that
Olivetti
ORG
may have supplied
the Soviet Union
GPE
with sophisticated computer - driven devices that could be used to build parts for combat aircraft .
The London Sunday Times
ORG
, which
first
ORDINAL
reported the
U.S.
GPE
concerns , cited a
U.S.
GPE
intelligence report as the source of the allegations that
Olivetti
ORG
exported
$ 25 million
MONEY
in " embargoed , state - of - the - art , flexible manufacturing systems to the
Soviet
NORP
aviation industry . "
Olivetti
ORG
reportedly began shipping these tools in
1984
DATE
. A
State Department
ORG
spokesman acknowledged that the
U.S.
GPE
is discussing the allegations with the
Italian
NORP
government and
Cocom
ORG
, but declined to confirm any details .
Italian
NORP
President
Francesco Cossiga
PERSON
promised a quick investigation into whether
Olivetti
ORG
broke
Cocom
ORG
rules . President
Bush
PERSON
called his attention to the matter during the
Italian
NORP
leader 's visit here
last week
DATE
.
Olivetti
ORG
has denied that it violated
Cocom
ORG
rules , asserting that the reported shipments were properly licensed by the
Italian
NORP
authorities . Although the legality of these sales is still an open question , the disclosure could n't be better timed to support the position of export - control hawks in the
Pentagon
ORG
and the intelligence community .
" It seems to me that a story like this breaks just before every important
Cocom
ORG
meeting , " said a
Washington
GPE
lobbyist for a number of
U.S.
GPE
computer companies . The
Bush
PERSON
administration has sent conflicting signals about its export - control policies , reflecting unhealed divisions among several competing agencies .
Last summer
DATE
, Mr.
Bush
PERSON
moved the administration in the direction of gradual liberalization when he told a
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
ORG
meeting that he would allow some exceptions to the
Cocom
ORG
embargo of strategic goods . But more recently , the
Pentagon
ORG
and
the Commerce Department
ORG
openly feuded over the extent to which
Cocom
ORG
should liberalize exports of personal computers to the bloc . However , these agencies generally agree that the West should be cautious about any further liberalization . " There 's no evidence that the
Soviet
NORP
program to -LRB- illegally
-RRB-
PERSON
acquire Western technology has diminished , " said a
State Department
ORG
spokesman .
CBS Inc.
ORG
is cutting "
The Pat Sajak Show
WORK_OF_ART
" down to
one hour
TIME
from its current
90 minutes
TIME
.
CBS
ORG
insisted the move was n't a setback for the program , which is the network 's
first
ORDINAL
entry into the
late - night
TIME
talk show format since
1972
DATE
. " I have every intention of making this the best possible show and having it run
one hour
TIME
is the best way to it , " said
Rod Perth
PERSON
, who was named vice president of
late night
TIME
entertainment in
August
DATE
.
" This will raise the energy level of the show . "
CBS
ORG
will continue to program action - adventure shows to follow the Sajak hour . But
CBS News
ORG
will extend its
four - hour
TIME
"
Nightwatch
NORP
" by
30 minutes
TIME
and begin at
1:30 a.m
TIME
. The show , despite a promising start , has slipped badly in the
weekly
DATE
ratings as compiled by
A.C. Nielsen Co.
ORG
, finishing far below "
Tonight
TIME
" on
NBC
ORG
, a unit of
General Electric Co.
ORG
, and "
Nightline
WORK_OF_ART
" on
ABC - TV
ORG
, a unit of
Capital Cities / ABC Inc
ORG
. Further fractioning the
late - night
TIME
audience is the addition of the " Arsenio Hall Show , " syndicated by
Paramount Communications Inc
ORG
. Just when it seemed safe to go back into stocks , Wall Street suffered another severe attack of nerves . Does this signal another
Black Monday
EVENT
is coming ? Or is this an extraordinary buying opportunity , just like
Oct. 19 , 1987
DATE
, eventually turned out to be ? Here 's what several leading market experts and money managers say about
Friday
DATE
's action , what happens next and what investors should do .
Joseph Granville
PERSON
. " I 'm the only one who said there would be an
October
DATE
massacre , all through
late August
DATE
and
September
DATE
, " says Mr.
Granville
PERSON
, once a widely followed market guru and still a well - known newsletter writer . " Everyone will tell you that this time is different from
1987
DATE
, " he says . " Well , in some ways it is different , but technically it is just the same . If you 're a technician , you obey the signals . Right now they 're telling me to get the hell out and stay out . I see no major support until
2200
DATE
. I see a possibility of going to 2200
this month
DATE
. " Mr.
Granville
PERSON
says he would n't even think of buying until
at least 600
CARDINAL
to
700
CARDINAL
stocks have hit
52 - week
DATE
lows ;
about 100
CARDINAL
stocks hit new lows
Friday
DATE
. " Most people , " he says , " have no idea what a massacre pattern looks like . "
Elaine Garzarelli
PERSON
. A quantitative analyst with
Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc.
ORG
, Ms.
Garzarelli
PERSON
had warned clients to take their money out of the market before the
1987
DATE
crash .
Friday
DATE
's big drop , she says , " was not a crash . This was an
October
DATE
massacre " like those that occurred in
1978
DATE
and
1979
DATE
. Now , as in
those two years
DATE
, her stock market indicators are positive . So she thinks the damage will be short - lived and contained . " Those corrections lasted
one to four weeks
DATE
and took the market
10%-12 %
PERCENT
down , " she says . " This is exactly the same thing , as far as I 'm concerned . " Thus , she says , if the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped below
2450
DATE
, " It would just be a fluke . My advice is to buy . "
As she calculates it , the average stock now sells for
about 12.5
CARDINAL
times companies ' earnings . She says that ratio could climb to
14.5
CARDINAL
, given current interest rates , and still be within the range of " fair value . "
Ned Davis
PERSON
.
Friday
DATE
's fall marks the start of a bear market , says Mr.
Davis
PERSON
, president of
Ned Davis Research Inc
ORG
. But Mr.
Davis
PERSON
, whose views are widely respected by money managers , says he expects no
1987
DATE
- style crash . " There was a unique combination in
1987
DATE
, " he says . " Margin debt was at a record high . There was tremendous public enthusiasm for stock mutual funds . The main thing was portfolio insurance , " a mechanical trading system intended to protect an investor against losses . "
A hundred billion dollars
MONEY
in stock was subject " to it .
In
1987
DATE
, such selling contributed to a snowball effect .
Today
DATE
could even be an up day , Mr.
Davis
PERSON
says , if major brokerage firms agree to refrain from program trading . Over
the next several months
DATE
, though , he says things look bad . " I think the market will be heading down into
November
DATE
, " he says . " We will probably have a
year - end
DATE
rally , and then go down again . Sort of a
two
CARDINAL
- step bear market . " He expects the downturn to carry the Dow Jones Industrial Average down to around 2000 sometime
next year
DATE
. " That would be a normal bear market , " he says . " I guess that 's my forecast . "
Leon G. Cooperman
PERSON
.
" I do n't think the market is going through another October '87 . I do n't think that 's the case at all , " says Mr.
Cooperman
PERSON
, a partner at
Goldman , Sachs & Co.
ORG
and chairman of
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
ORG
. Mr.
Cooperman
PERSON
sees this as a good time to pick up bargains , but he does n't think there 's any need to rush . " I expect the market to open weaker
Monday
DATE
, but then it should find some stability . " He ticks off several major differences
between now and two years ago
DATE
. Unlike
1987
DATE
, interest rates have been falling
this year
DATE
. Unlike
1987
DATE
, the dollar has been strong . And unlike
1987
DATE
, the economy does n't appear to be in any danger of overheating . But the economy 's slower growth
this year
DATE
also means the outlook for corporate profits " is n't good , " he says . " So it 's a very mixed bag . "
Thus , he concludes , " This is not a good environment to be fully invested " in stocks . " If I had come into
Friday
DATE
on margin or with very little cash in the portfolios , I would not do any buying . But we came into
Friday
DATE
with a conservative portfolio , so I would look to do some modest buying " on behalf of clients . " We 're going to look for some of the better - known companies that got clocked "
Friday
DATE
.
John Kenneth Galbraith
PERSON
. " This is the latest manifestation of the capacity of the financial community for recurrent insanity , " says Mr.
Galbraith
PERSON
, an economist . " I see this as a reaction to the whole junk bond explosion , " he says . " The explosion of junk bonds and takeovers has lodged a lot of insecure securities in the hands of investors and loaded the corporations that are the objects of takeovers or feared takeovers with huge amounts of debt rather than equity . This has both made investors uneasy and the corporations more vulnerable . " Nevertheless , he says a depression does n't appear likely .
" There is more resiliency in the economy at large than we commonly suppose , " he says . " It takes more error now to have a major depression than back in the
Thirties
ORG
-- much as the financial community and the government may try . "
Mario Gabelli
PERSON
.
New York
GPE
money manager
Mario Gabelli
PERSON
, an expert at spotting takeover candidates , says that takeovers are n't totally gone . " Companies are still going to buy companies around the world , " he says . Examples are "
Ford
ORG
looking at
Jaguar
ORG
,
BellSouth
ORG
looking at
LIN Broadcasting
ORG
. " These sorts of takeovers do n't require junk bonds or big bank loans to finance them , so Mr.
Gabelli
PERSON
figures they will continue . " The market was up
35 %
PERCENT
since -LCB- President -RCB-
Bush
PERSON
took office , " Mr.
Gabelli
PERSON
says , so a correction was to be expected . He thinks another crash is " unlikely , " and says he was " nibbling at " selected stocks during
Friday
DATE
's plunge . " Stocks that were thrown out just on an emotional basis are a great opportunity -LCB-
this -RCB- week
DATE
for guys like me , " he says .
Jim Rogers
PERSON
. " It seems to me that this is the pin that has finally pricked the balloon , " says Mr.
Rogers
PERSON
, a professor of finance at
Columbia University
ORG
and former co-manager of
one
CARDINAL
of the most successful hedge funds in history ,
Quantum Fund
ORG
. He sees " economic problems , financial problems " ahead for the
U.S.
GPE
, with a fairly strong possibility of a recession . "
Friday
DATE
you could n't sell dollars , " he says . Dealers " would give you a quote , but then refuse to make the trade . " If the dollar stays weak , he says , that will add to inflationary pressures in the
U.S.
GPE
and make it hard for
the Federal Reserve Board
ORG
to ease interest rates very much . Mr.
Rogers
PERSON
wo n't decide what to do
today
DATE
until he sees how the
London
GPE
and
Tokyo
GPE
markets go . He recommends that investors sell takeover - related stocks , but hang on to some other stocks -- especially utilities , which often do well during periods of economic weakness .
Frank Curzio
PERSON
. Many people now claim to have predicted the
1987
DATE
crash .
Queens
ORG
newsletter writer
Francis X. Curzio
PERSON
actually did it : He stated in writing in
September 1987
DATE
that the Dow Jones Industrial Average was likely to decline
about 500
CARDINAL
points
the following month
DATE
. Mr.
Curzio
PERSON
says what happens now will depend a good deal on
the Federal Reserve Board
ORG
. If it promptly cuts the discount rate it charges on loans to banks , he says , " That could quiet things down . " If not , " We could go to
2200
ORDINAL
very soon . "
Frank W. Terrizzi
PERSON
. Stock prices " would still have to go down some additional amount before we become positive on stocks , " says Mr.
Terrizzi
PERSON
, president and managing director of
Renaissance Investment Management Inc.
ORG
in
Cincinnati
GPE
.
Renaissance
ORG
, which manages
about $ 1.8 billion
MONEY
, drew stiff criticism from many clients
earlier this year
DATE
because it pulled entirely out of stocks at
the beginning of the year
DATE
and thus missed a strong rally .
Renaissance
ORG
is keeping its money entirely in cash equivalents , primarily
U.S. Treasury
ORG
bills . " T - bills probably are the right place to be , " he says .
Information International Inc.
ORG
said it was sued by a buyer of its computerized newspaper - publishing system , alleging that the company failed to correct deficiencies in the system . A spokesman for
Information International
ORG
said the lawsuit by
two
CARDINAL
units of
Morris Communications Corp.
ORG
seeks restitution of the system 's
about $ 3 million
MONEY
purchase price and cancellation of a software license provided by the
Morris
PERSON
units to
Information International
ORG
for alleged failure to pay royalties .
Information International
ORG
said it believes that the complaints , filed in federal court in
Georgia
GPE
, are without merit . Closely held
Morris Communications
ORG
is based in
Augusta
GPE
,
Ga
GPE
. The units that filed the suit are
Southeastern Newspapers Corp.
ORG
and
Florida Publishing Co
ORG
. Sharp increases in the price of fresh produce caused
Spain
GPE
's
September
DATE
consumer price index to shoot up
1.1 %
PERCENT
from
the previous month
DATE
, pushing the
annual
DATE
rate of inflation to
6.8 %
PERCENT
,
the National Institute of Statistics
ORG
said
Friday
DATE
. The
monthly
DATE
increase is the highest recorded in
the past four years
DATE
. The index , which registered
156.8
CARDINAL
at
the end of September
DATE
, has a base of
100
CARDINAL
set in
1983
DATE
and is n't seasonally adjusted . Prices have risen
5.9 %
PERCENT
in
the first nine months of the year
DATE
, outstripping both the initial
3 %
PERCENT
inflation goal set by the government of
Socialist
NORP
Prime Minister
Felipe Gonzalez
PERSON
and the
second
ORDINAL
, revised goal of
5.8 %
PERCENT
.
The
Treasury
ORG
plans to raise
$ 175 million
MONEY
in new cash
Thursday
DATE
by selling
about $ 9.75 billion
MONEY
of
52 - week
DATE
bills and redeeming
$ 9.58 billion
MONEY
of maturing bills . The bills will be dated
Oct. 26
DATE
and will mature
Oct. 25 , 1990
DATE
. They will be available in minimum denominations of $
10,000
MONEY
. Bids must be received by
1 p.m. EDT
TIME
Thursday
DATE
at the
Treasury
ORG
or at
Federal Reserve
ORG
banks or branches . This small
Dallas
GPE
suburb 's got trouble . Trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for pool .
More than 30 years ago
DATE
, Prof.
Harold Hill
PERSON
, the con man in
Meredith Willson
PERSON
's "
The Music Man
WORK_OF_ART
, " warned the citizens of
River City
GPE
,
Iowa
GPE
, against the game . Now kindred spirits on
Addison
ORG
's town council have barred the town 's fanciest hotel ,
the Grand Kempinski
FAC
, from installing
three
CARDINAL
free pool tables in its new lounge .
Mayor
Lynn Spruill
PERSON
and
two
CARDINAL
members of the council said they were worried about setting a precedent that would permit pool halls along
Addison
ORG
's main street . And the mayor , in an admonition that bears a rhythmic resemblance to Prof.
Hill
PERSON
's , warned that " alcohol leads to betting , which leads to fights . " The council 's action is yet another blow to a sport that its fans claim has been maligned unjustly for
years
DATE
. " Obviously they 're not in touch with what 's going on , " says
Tom Manske
PERSON
, vice president of
the National Pocket Billiards Association
ORG
. Pool is hot in
New York
GPE
and
Chicago
GPE
, he insists , where " upscale , suit - and - tie places " are adding tables . With
today
DATE
's tougher drunk driving laws , he adds , " people do n't want to just sit around and drink . " Besides , rowdy behavior seems unlikely at
the Grand Kempinski
FAC
, where rooms average $
200
MONEY
a night and the cheap mixed drinks go for $
3.50
MONEY
a pop . At the lounge , manager
Elizabeth Dyer
PERSON
wo n't admit patrons in jeans , T - shirts or tennis shoes . But a majority of the
Addison
ORG
council did n't buy those arguments . Introducing pool , argued
Councilwoman Riley Reinker
ORG
, would be " dangerous .
It would open a can of worms . "
Addison
ORG
is no stranger to cans of worms , either . After its previous mayor committed suicide
last year
DATE
, an investigation disclosed that town officials regularly voted on their own projects , gave special favors to developer friends and dipped into the town 's coffers for trips and retreats . The revelations embarrassed town officials , although they argued that the problems were n't as severe as the media suggested . Now comes the pool flap . " I think there 's some people worried about something pretty ridiculous , " Councilman
John Nolan
PERSON
says . " I thought this was all taken care of in '
The Music Man
WORK_OF_ART
.
Time
ORG
magazine , in a move to reduce the costs of wooing new subscribers , is lowering its circulation guarantee to advertisers for
the second consecutive year
DATE
, increasing its subscription rates and cutting back on merchandise giveaways . In an announcement to its staff
last week
DATE
, executives at
Time Warner Inc. 's
ORG
weekly
DATE
magazine said
Time
ORG
will " dramatically de-emphasize " its use of electronic giveaways such as telephones in television subscription drives ; cut the circulation it guarantees advertisers by
300,000
CARDINAL
, to
four million
CARDINAL
; and increase the cost of its
annual
DATE
subscription rate by
about $ 4 to $ 55
MONEY
.
In a related development , the news - weekly , for
the fourth year in a row
DATE
, said it wo n't increase its advertising rates in
1990
DATE
; a full ,
four
CARDINAL
- color page in the magazine costs
about $ 120,000
MONEY
. However , because the guaranteed circulation base is being lowered , ad rates will be effectively
7.5 %
PERCENT
higher per subscriber , according to
Richard Heinemann
PERSON
,
Time
ORG
associate publisher .
Time
ORG
is following the course of some other mass - circulation magazines that in
recent years
DATE
have challenged the publishing myth that maintaining artificially high , and expensive , circulations is the way to draw advertisers . In
recent years
DATE
,
Reader 's Digest
ORG
,
New York Times Co. 's
ORG
McCall 's
ORG
, and most recently
News Corp. 's
ORG
TV Guide
ORG
, have cut their massive circulation rate bases to eliminate marginal circulation and hold down rates for advertisers . Deep discounts in subscriptions and offers of free clock radios and watches have become accepted forms of attracting new subscribers in the hyper-competitive world of magazine news - weeklies . But
Time
ORG
, as part of the more cost - conscious
Time Warner
ORG
, wants to
wean
NORP
itself away from expensive gimmicks . Besides ,
Time
ORG
executives think selling a news magazine with a clock radio is tacky . " Giveaways just give people the wrong image , " said Mr.
Heinemann
PERSON
. " That perception takes the focus off the magazine . "
Time
ORG
magazine executives predictably paint the circulation cut as a show of strength and actually a benefit to advertisers .
" What we are doing is screening out the readers who are only casually related to the magazine and do n't really read it , " said Mr.
Heinemann
PERSON
. " We are trying to create quality and involvement . " However ,
Time
ORG
executives used the same explanation when in
October 1988
DATE
the magazine cut its guaranteed circulation from
4.6 million
CARDINAL
to
4.3 million
CARDINAL
. And
Time
ORG
's paid circulation , according to
Audit Bureau of Circulations
ORG
, dropped
7.3 %
PERCENT
to
4,393,237
CARDINAL
in
the six months ended June 30 , 1989
DATE
. Still ,
Time
ORG
's move is being received well , once again . " It 's terrific for advertisers to know the reader will be paying more , " said
Michael Drexler
PERSON
, national media director at
Bozell Inc.
ORG
ad agency . " A few drops in circulation are of no consequence . It 's not a show of weakness ; they are improving the quality of circulation while insuring their profits . " Mr.
Heinemann
PERSON
said the changes represent a new focus in the magazine industry : a magazine 's net revenue per subscriber , or the actual revenue from subscribers after discounts and the cost of premiums have been stripped away . " The question is how much are we getting from each reader , " said Mr.
Heinemann
PERSON
.
Time
ORG
's rivals news - weeklies ,
Washington Post Co. 's
ORG
Newsweek
ORG
and
U.S. News & World Report
ORG
, are less reliant on electronic giveaways , and in
recent years
DATE
both have been increasing their circulation rate bases . Both magazines are expected to announce their ad rates and circulation levels for
1990
DATE
within
a month
DATE
.
Chase Manhattan Bank
ORG
Chairman
Willard Butcher
PERSON
is a conservative banker and a loyal
Republican
NORP
, but on
Friday
DATE
morning
TIME
he had few kind words for President
Bush
PERSON
's economic policy - making . " There are some very significant issues out there , such as the fiscal deficit , the trade deficit , our relations with
Japan
GPE
, that have to be the subject of major initiatives , " he said in an interview . " I 'd like to see that initiative , and I have n't . There is n't a big shot , an agenda . "
A few hours later
TIME
, the stock market dropped
190
CARDINAL
points . Politicians tried to finger each other for the blame , although many analysts doubt that
Washington
GPE
was singly responsible for Wall Street 's woes . But Mr.
Butcher
PERSON
's comments make one thing clear : Some on Wall Street wonder if anyone is in charge of economic policy .
Consider this : -- By
11:59 p.m.
TIME
tonight
TIME
, President
Bush
PERSON
must order
$ 16 billion
MONEY
of automatic , across - the - board cuts in government spending to comply with the
Gramm - Rudman
LAW
budget law . The cuts are necessary because
Congress
ORG
and the administration have failed to reach agreement on a deficit - cutting bill . " We simply do n't have strong leadership to try to reduce the deficit and make tough choices , "
House Budget Committee
ORG
Chairman
Leon Panetta
PERSON
-LRB-
D.
NORP
,
Calif
GPE
.
-RRB-
PERSON
said
yesterday
DATE
on
NBC News 's
ORG
"
Meet the Press
WORK_OF_ART
. " -- For
the last two weeks
DATE
, the
Bush
PERSON
administration and
the Federal Reserve
ORG
have been engaged in a semi-public battle over international economic policy . The administration has been trying to push the dollar lower ; the
Fed
ORG
has been resisting . "
One
CARDINAL
of the things that continues to worry me is this monetary warfare between
the Treasury Department
ORG
and
the Federal Reserve Board
ORG
, " said
Lawrence Kudlow
PERSON
, a
Bear , Stearns & Co.
ORG
economist , on
ABC
ORG
's " This Week . " -- The administration has sent out confusing signals about its response to a recent spate of airline takeovers .
Last month
DATE
,
Transportation
ORG
Secretary
Sam Skinner
PERSON
forced
Northwest Airlines
ORG
to reduce a stake held by
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
ORG
. But he has since run into opposition from the
Treasury
ORG
and
the White House
ORG
over that decision .
And he has kept mum on how his decision might affect a bid for
United Airlines
ORG
, which includes a big stake by
British Airways PLC
ORG
. Some analysts say uncertainty about
Washington
GPE
's anti-takeover policy was
one
CARDINAL
reason that financing for the
United Airlines
ORG
takeover fell through -- the event that triggered the market drop . In many ways , the backdrop to
Friday
DATE
's stock decline is eerily similar to that of
October 1987 's
DATE
508
CARDINAL
- point crash . Then , as now , the budget debate was behind schedule and automatic spending cuts were within
days
DATE
of taking hold . The
Treasury
ORG
was locked in a battle over international economic policy , although at that time it was with
West German
NORP
officials rather than
the Federal Reserve
ORG
. And concern about official actions aimed at takeovers -- then by the tax - writing
House Ways and Means Committee
ORG
rather than
the Transportation Department
ORG
-- were making markets nervous . The
1987
DATE
crash brought the
Reagan
PERSON
administration and
Democratic
NORP
lawmakers to the table for the
first
ORDINAL
budget summit , resulting in a
two - year
DATE
plan to reduce the deficit by
more than $ 76 billion
MONEY
-- even though the deficit actually rose by
nearly $ 12 billion
MONEY
during that period . But , barring further drops in the market
this week
DATE
, a similar outcome does n't seem likely
this year
DATE
. Lawmakers and administration officials agree that
Friday
DATE
's drop , by itself , is n't enough to force both sides back to the table to try to reach a deficit - reduction agreement that would be more serious and more far - reaching than
last spring 's
DATE
gimmick - ridden plan , which still is n't fully implemented .
One
CARDINAL
of the biggest reasons that new talks are n't likely to come about is that , as everyone learned in
1987
DATE
, the economy and the market can survive a
one - day
DATE
508
CARDINAL
- point tumble .
" Everybody thought we were looking at a repetition of
1929
DATE
, that we were looking at a recession , " Rep.
Panetta
PERSON
said
yesterday
DATE
in an interview . " That did not happen . They learned they could survive it without much problem . " But administration officials privately agree with Mr.
Panetta
PERSON
, who said a precipitous drop
this week
DATE
" is going to force the president and
Congress
ORG
to take a much harder look at fiscal policy . " In that case , there will be plenty of blame to go around . " There is an underlying concern on the part of the
American
NORP
people -- and there should be - that the administration has not gone far enough in cutting this deficit and that
Congress
ORG
has been unwilling to cut what the administration asked us to cut , " said
Senate Finance Committee
ORG
Chairman
Lloyd Bentsen -LRB-
PERSON
D.
NORP
,
Texas
GPE
-RRB- . Nevertheless , it clearly will take
more than Friday 's
DATE
190
CARDINAL
- point decline to overcome the bitter feelings that have developed between lawmakers and
White House
ORG
Budget Director
Richard Darman
PERSON
over the capital - gains fight .
Hill Democrats
PERSON
are particularly angry over Mr.
Bush
PERSON
's claim that the capital - gains cut was part of
April
DATE
's budget accord and his insistence on combining it with the deficit - reduction legislation . " There is no prospect of any so - called grand compromise or deal
next year
DATE
because the administration simply did n't live up to this
year
DATE
's deal , "
Senate
ORG
Majority Leader
George Mitchell
PERSON
-LRB-
D.
NORP
,
Maine
GPE
-RRB- said
yesterday
DATE
on
CBS News 's
ORG
"
Face the Nation
WORK_OF_ART
. " During
last week 's
DATE
maneuverings on the deficit - cutting bill and the capital - gains issue , there were signs that
Senate
ORG
Republicans
NORP
and the administration were at odds .
At the very moment that
Senate
ORG
Republicans
NORP
were negotiating a deal to exclude capital gains from the deficit - reduction legislation ,
White House
ORG
spokesman
Marlin Fitzwater
PERSON
told reporters that it was the president 's policy to include it . When an agreement was reached to strip capital gains from the legislation ,
Oregon
GPE
Sen.
Bob Packwood
PERSON
, the ranking
GOP
ORG
member of the tax - writing
Senate Finance Committee
ORG
, hailed it . Asked if the administration agreed , he curtly replied : " The adminstration will have to speak for itself . "
Friday
DATE
's market tumble could spur action on reconciling the
House
ORG
and
Senate
ORG
versions of the deficit - reduction measure , a process that is n't expected to begin until
tomorrow
DATE
at the soonest .
Senate
ORG
Republicans
NORP
expressed the hope that the
House
ORG
would follow the lead of the
Senate
ORG
, which on
Friday
DATE
agreed to drop a variety of spending measures and tax breaks that would have increased the
fiscal 1990
DATE
deficit . " The market needs a strong signal that we 're serious about deficit reduction , and the best way to do that is for
the House of Representatives
ORG
to strip their bill " of similar provisions , Sen.
Warren Rudman -LRB-
PERSON
R.
NORP
, N.H .
-RRB-
PERSON
. said
yesterday
DATE
.
The White House Office of Management and Budget
ORG
, whose calculations determine whether the
Gramm - Rudman
LAW
targets are met , estimated that the
House
ORG
- passed deficit - reduction measure would cut the
fiscal 1990
DATE
shortfall by
$ 6.2 billion
MONEY
,
almost half
CARDINAL
of
the Congressional Budget Office 's
ORG
estimate of
$ 11.0 billion
MONEY
. Rep.
Panetta
PERSON
said that
OMB
ORG
's figure would still be enough to avoid permanent across - the - board cuts , but added : " We 're getting very close to the margins here . " No one in
Washington
GPE
was willing to take the blame for provoking
Friday
DATE
's drop in the stock market . But some players were quick to seize the moment .
Before the sun had set on
Friday
DATE
,
Richard Rahn
PERSON
, the supply - side chief economist of
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
ORG
, issued a statement attributing the drop in stock prices to the
Senate
ORG
decision to postpone action on capital gains . " Investors , who had been holding assets in anticipation of a more favorable time to sell , were spooked , " he said . " There have been many preposterous reasons advanced to support a capital - gains tax cut , " Sen.
Mitchell
PERSON
said during his television appearance , " but I suggest that is perhaps more than any of the others .
Quest Medical Inc.
ORG
said it adopted a shareholders ' rights plan in which rights to purchase shares of common stock will be distributed as a dividend to shareholders of record as of
Oct. 23
DATE
. The company said the plan was n't adopted in response to any known offers for
Quest
GPE
, a maker and marketer of hospital products . The rights allow shareholders to purchase
Quest
LOC
stock at a discount if any person or group acquires
more than 15 %
PERCENT
of the company 's common stock or announces a tender offer .
Ideal Basic Industries Inc.
ORG
said its directors reached an agreement in principle calling for
HOFI North America Inc.
ORG
to combine its
North American
NORP
cement holdings with
Ideal
ORG
in a transaction that will leave
Ideal
ORG
's minority shareholders with
12.8 %
PERCENT
of the combined company .
HOFI
ORG
, the
North American
NORP
holding company of
Swiss
NORP
concern
Holderbank Financiere Glaris Ltd.
ORG
, previously proposed combining its
100 %
PERCENT
stake in
St. Lawrence Cement Inc.
ORG
and its
60 %
PERCENT
stake in
Dundee Cement Co.
ORG
with its
67 %
PERCENT
stake in
Ideal
GPE
.
But
HOFI
ORG
's
first
ORDINAL
offer would have given
Ideal
ORG
's other shareholders
about 10 %
PERCENT
of the combined company .
Ideal
ORG
's directors rejected that offer , although they said they endorsed the merger proposal . Under the agreement ,
HOFI
ORG
will own
87.2 %
PERCENT
of the combined company .
Ideal
ORG
's current operations will represent
about 39.2 %
PERCENT
of the combined company . The transaction is subject to a definitive agreement and approval by
Ideal
ORG
shareholders .
Ideal
ORG
said it expects to complete the transaction
early next year
DATE
. The
West German
NORP
retailer
ASKO Deutsche Kaufhaus AG
ORG
plans to challenge the legality of a widely employed anti-takeover defense of companies in the
Netherlands
GPE
. The eventual court decision could become a landmark in
Dutch
NORP
corporate law because the lawsuit
ASKO
ORG
plans to file would be the
first
ORDINAL
to challenge the entire principle and practice of companies issuing voting preferred shares to management - controlled trusts to dilute voting power of common stockholders . Up to now only specific aspects of these defenses have been challenged , though unsuccessfully ,
ASKO
ORG
's
Dutch
NORP
lawyers noted .
Should the courts uphold the validity of this type of defense ,
ASKO
ORG
will then ask the court to overturn such a vote - diluting maneuver recently deployed by
Koninklijke Ahold NV
PERSON
.
ASKO
ORG
says the
Dutch
NORP
- based international food retailer had n't reasonable grounds to issue preferred stock to a friendly trust and thus dilute the worth and voting power of
ASKO
ORG
and other shareholders . Speaking through its
Dutch
NORP
lawyers ,
ASKO
ORG
also disclosed it holds a
15 %
PERCENT
stake in
Ahold
GPE
. It was previously thought
ASKO
ORG
held a
13.6 %
PERCENT
stake that was accumulated since
July
DATE
. A spokesman for
Ahold
ORG
said his company is confident of its own position and the propriety of the preferred - share issue . He termed
ASKO
ORG
's legal actions as " unproductive " to international cooperation among
European
NORP
retailers .
Ports of Call Inc.
ORG
reached agreements to sell its remaining
seven
CARDINAL
aircraft to buyers that were n't disclosed . The agreements bring to a total of
nine
CARDINAL
the number of planes the travel company has sold
this year
DATE
as part of a restructuring . The company said a portion of the
$ 32 million
MONEY
realized from the sales will be used to repay its bank debt and other obligations resulting from the currently suspended air - charter operations .
Earlier the company announced it would sell its aging fleet of
Boeing Co.
ORG
707s
PRODUCT
because of increasing maintenance costs .
Alan Seelenfreund
PERSON
,
52 years old
DATE
, was named chairman of this processor of prescription claims , succeeding
Thomas W. Field Jr.
PERSON
,
55
DATE
, who resigned
last month
DATE
. Mr.
Field
PERSON
also had been chairman of
McKesson Corp.
ORG
, resigning that post after a dispute with the board over corporate strategy . Mr.
Seelenfreund
PERSON
is executive vice president and chief financial officer of
McKesson
PERSON
and will continue in those roles .
PCS
ORG
also named
Rex R. Malson
PERSON
,
57
DATE
, executive vice president at
McKesson
ORG
, as a director , filling the seat vacated by Mr.
Field
PERSON
. Messrs.
Malson
PERSON
and
Seelenfreund
PERSON
are directors of
McKesson
PERSON
, which has an
86 %
PERCENT
stake in
PCS
ORG
. A group of
Arby 's
ORG
franchisees said they formed an association to oppose
Miami Beach
GPE
financier
Victor Posner
PERSON
's control of the restaurant chain . The decision is the latest move in an escalating battle between the franchisees and Mr.
Posner
PERSON
that began in
August
DATE
.
At the time , a group called
R.B. Partners Ltd.
ORG
, consisting of
eight
CARDINAL
of
Arby 's
ORG
largest franchisees , offered
more than $ 200 million
MONEY
to buy
Arby 's Inc.
ORG
, which is part of
DWG Corp
ORG
.
DWG
ORG
is a holding company controlled by Mr.
Posner
PERSON
.
One week later
DATE
,
Leonard H. Roberts
PERSON
, president and chief executive officer of
Arby 's
ORG
, was fired in a dispute with Mr.
Posner
PERSON
.
Friday
DATE
,
42
CARDINAL
franchisees announced the formation of an association -- called
A.P. Association Inc.
ORG
-- to " preserve the integrity of the
Arby
ORG
's system . " The franchisees , owners or operators of
1,000
CARDINAL
of the
1,900
CARDINAL
franchised
Arby 's
ORG
in the
U.S.
GPE
, said : " We have concluded that continued control of
Arby 's
ORG
by
Victor Posner
PERSON
is totally unacceptable to us , because it is extremely likely to cause irreparable damage to the
Arby
ORG
's system . We support all efforts to remove
Victor Posner
PERSON
from control of
Arby 's Inc.
ORG
and the
Arby
ORG
's system . " The group said it would consider , among other things , withholding royalty payments and initiating a class - action lawsuit seeking court approval for the withholdings . In
Florida
GPE
,
Renee Mottram
PERSON
, a senior vice president at
DWG
ORG
, responded : " We do n't think any individual or group should disrupt a winning system or illegally interfere with existing contractual relationships for their own self - serving motives . The real estate slump that 's pushing down the price of
New York
GPE
office space and housing is also affecting the city 's retail real estate market .
In
Manhattan
GPE
, once - desirable store sites sit vacant and newly constructed space has been slow to fill . Retail real estate brokers say tenants are reluctant to sign leases because of uncertainty about the local economy , turmoil in their own industries and a belief that rents have not yet hit bottom . " There is an unbelievable amount of space available , " says
Faith Consolo
PERSON
, senior vice president at
Garrick - Aug Associates Store Leasing Inc
ORG
. There are
about 2,000
CARDINAL
stores for rent , up from a more typical range of
1,200
CARDINAL
to
1,500
CARDINAL
. " This further confuses retailers , " she says . " They wonder should they sign a lease if prices are still coming down ? Is this the wrong time to open a store ? Who is going to be in the space next door ? " In addition , Ms.
Consolo
PERSON
says , tenants usually can negotiate to pay rents that are
about one - quarter
CARDINAL
lower than landlords ' initial asking price . A handful of hot retail locations , such as the
57th
ORDINAL
Street and
Madison
PERSON
and
Fifth Avenue
FAC
areas , have been able to sustain what many see as astronomical rents .
And , in some neighborhoods , rents have merely hit a plateau . But on average ,
Manhattan
GPE
retail rents have dropped
10 % to 15 %
PERCENT
in
the past six months alone
DATE
, experts say . That follows a more subtle decline in
the prior six months
DATE
, after
Manhattan
GPE
rents had run up rapidly since
1986
DATE
. The same factors limiting demand for office space have affected retailing . " As businesses contract or depart , the number of employees who might use retail services shrinks , " says
Edward A. Friedman
PERSON
, senior vice president of
Helmsley Spear Inc
ORG
. He says financial problems plaguing electronics , fur and furniture companies -- key categories in the local retail economy -- have further deflated the market . Hardest hit are what he calls " secondary " sites that primarily serve neighborhood residents . In these locations , Mr.
Friedman
PERSON
says , " Retailers are increasingly cautious about expanding and rents have remained steady or in some cases have declined . " Weakness in the restaurant industry , which is leaving retail space vacant , exacerbates the problem for landlords . It is also no comfort to landlords and small
New York
GPE
retailers when the future of larger department stores , which anchor retail neighborhoods , are in doubt .
Hooker Corp.
ORG
, parent of
Bonwit Teller
ORG
and
B. Altman 's
ORG
, is mired in bankruptcy proceedings and
Bloomingdale 's
ORG
is for sale by its owner ,
Campeau Corp
ORG
. The trend toward lower rents may seem surprising given that some communities in
New York
GPE
are bemoaning the loss of favorite local businesses to high rents . But , despite the recent softening , for many of these retailers there 's still been too big a jump from the rental rates of
the late 1970s
DATE
, when their leases were signed . Certainly , the recent drop in prices does n't mean
Manhattan
GPE
comes cheap .
New York
GPE
retail rents still run well above the going rate in other
U.S.
GPE
cities .
Madison
PERSON
and
Fifth Avenues
ORG
and East 57th Street can command rents of
up to $ 500
MONEY
a square foot , and $
250
MONEY
is not uncommon . The thriving
34th Street
FAC
area offers rents of
about $ 100
MONEY
a square foot , as do up - and - coming locations along lower
Fifth Avenue
FAC
. By contrast , rentals in the best retail locations in
Boston
GPE
,
San Francisco
GPE
and
Chicago
GPE
rarely top $
100
MONEY
a square foot . And rents on
Beverly Hills '
GPE
Rodeo Drive generally do n't exceed
about $ 125
MONEY
a square foot .
The New York Stock Exchange
ORG
said
two
CARDINAL
securities will begin trading
this week
DATE
.
Precision Castparts Corp.
ORG
,
Portland
GPE
,
Ore.
GPE
, will begin trading with the symbol PCP . It makes investment castings and has traded over - the - counter .
Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC
ORG
, an
Edinburgh
GPE
,
Scotland
GPE
, financial services company , will list
American
NORP
depositary shares , representing preferred shares , with the symbol RBSPr . It will continue to trade on
the International Stock Exchange
ORG
,
London
GPE
.
The American Stock Exchange
ORG
listed shares of
two
CARDINAL
companies .
AIM Telephones Inc.
ORG
, a
Parsippany
GPE
,
N.J.
GPE
, telecommunications equipment supply company , started trading with the symbol
AIM
ORG
. It had traded over - the - counter .
Columbia Laboratories Inc.
ORG
,
Miami
GPE
, began trading with the symbol
COB
ORG
. The pharmaceuticals maker had traded over - the - counter .
The National Market System
ORG
of the
Nasdaq
ORG
over - the - counter market listed shares of
one
CARDINAL
company .
Employee Benefit Plans Inc.
ORG
, a
Minneapolis
GPE
health - care services company , was listed with the symbol EBPI .
James Robinson
PERSON
,
57 years old
DATE
, was elected president and chief executive officer of this maker of magnetic recording heads for disk drives . He has been president and chief executive officer of
Amperex Electronics Corp.
ORG
, a division of
North American Philips Corp.
ORG
, itself a subsidiary of
N.V
GPE
. Philips of the
Netherlands
GPE
.
Charles J. Lawson Jr.
PERSON
,
68
DATE
, who had been acting chief executive since
June 14
DATE
, will continue as chairman . The former president and chief executive ,
Eric W. Markrud
PERSON
, resigned in
June
DATE
.
Syms Corp.
ORG
completed the sale of its
A. Sulka & Co.
ORG
subsidiary , a men 's luxury haberdashery , to
Luxco Investments
ORG
. Terms were n't disclosed . As
Syms
PERSON
's " core business of off - price retailing grows , a small subsidiary that is operationally unrelated becomes a difficult distraction , " said
Marcy Syms
PERSON
, president of the parent , in a statement .
A spokeswoman said
Sulka
ORG
operates a total of
seven
CARDINAL
stores in the
U.S.
GPE
and overseas .
Syms
PERSON
operates
25
CARDINAL
off - price apparel stores in the
U.S.
GPE
.
Kaufman & Broad Home Corp.
ORG
said it formed a
$ 53.4 million
MONEY
limited partnership subsidiary to buy land in
California
GPE
suitable for residential development . The partnership ,
Kaufman & Broad Land Development Venture Limited Partnership
ORG
, is a
50 - 50
CARDINAL
joint venture with a trust created by institutional clients of
Heitman Advisory Corp.
ORG
, a unit of
Heitman Financial Corp.
ORG
, a real estate advisory , management and development company with offices in
Chicago
GPE
and
Beverly Hills
GPE
,
Calif
GPE
.
Kaufman & Broad
ORG
, a home building company , declined to identify the institutional investors . The land to be purchased by the joint venture has n't yet received zoning and other approvals required for development , and part of
Kaufman & Broad 's
ORG
job will be to obtain such approvals . The partnership runs the risk that it may not get the approvals for development , but in return , it can buy land at wholesale rather than retail prices , which can result in sizable savings , said
Bruce Karatz
PERSON
, president and chief executive officer of
Kaufman & Broad
ORG
. " There are really very few companies that have adequate capital to buy properties in a raw state for cash . Typically , developers option property , and then once they get the administrative approvals , they buy it , " said Mr.
Karatz
PERSON
, adding that he believes the joint venture is the
first
ORDINAL
of its kind .
" We usually operate in that conservative manner . " By setting up the joint venture ,
Kaufman & Broad
ORG
can take the more aggressive approach of buying raw land , while avoiding the negative impacts to its own balance sheet , Mr.
Karatz
PERSON
said . The company is putting up
only 10 %
PERCENT
of the capital , although it is responsible for providing management , planning and processing services to the joint venture . " This is one of the best ways to assure a pipeline of land to fuel our growth at a minimum risk to our company , " Mr.
Karatz
PERSON
said .
Ford Motor Co.
ORG
said it acquired
5 %
PERCENT
of the shares in
Jaguar PLC
ORG
.
Jaguar
ORG
,
the London Stock Exchange
ORG
and
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
ORG
are being notified of the transactions , the company said .
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission
ORG
advised
Ford
ORG
last week
DATE
that it would n't raise any objection to the acquisition of
as much as 15 %
PERCENT
of
Jaguar
ORG
shares . The No.
2
CARDINAL
auto maker disclosed
last month
DATE
that it wants to buy
as much as 15 %
PERCENT
of the
British
NORP
luxury - car maker , the maximum allowed under current
United Kingdom
GPE
government restrictions .
General Motors Corp.
ORG
said it had discussed the possibility of a joint venture with
Jaguar
ORG
before
Ford
ORG
began buying shares .
GM
ORG
said it still is talking with
Jaguar
ORG
about acquiring a minority interest .
General Motors Corp.
ORG
, in a series of moves that angered union officials in the
U.S.
GPE
and
Canada
GPE
, has signaled that
as many as five
CARDINAL
North American
NORP
assembly plants may not survive
the mid-1990s
DATE
as the corporation struggles to cut its excess vehicle - making capacity . In announcements to workers
late last week
DATE
,
GM
ORG
effectively signed death notices for
two
CARDINAL
full - sized van assembly plants , and cast serious doubt on the futures of
three
CARDINAL
U.S.
GPE
car factories .
GM
ORG
is under intense pressure to close factories that became unprofitable as the giant auto maker 's
U.S.
GPE
market share skidded during
the past decade
DATE
. The company , currently using
about 80 %
PERCENT
of its
North American
NORP
vehicle capacity , has vowed it will run at
100 %
PERCENT
of capacity by
1992
DATE
.
Just a month ago
DATE
,
GM
ORG
announced it would make an aging assembly plant in
Lakewood
GPE
,
Ga.
GPE
, the
eighth
ORDINAL
U.S.
GPE
assembly facility to close since
1987
DATE
. Now ,
GM
ORG
appears to be stepping up the pace of its factory consolidation to get in shape for
the 1990s
DATE
.
One
CARDINAL
reason is mounting competition from new
Japanese
NORP
car plants in the
U.S.
GPE
that are pouring out
more than one million
CARDINAL
vehicles a year at costs lower than
GM
ORG
can match . Another is that
United Auto Workers
ORG
union officials have signaled they want tighter no - layoff provisions in the new Big
Three
CARDINAL
national contract that will be negotiated
next year
DATE
.
GM
ORG
officials want to get their strategy to reduce capacity and the work force in place before those talks begin . The problem , however , is that
GM
ORG
's moves are coming at a time when
UAW
ORG
leaders are trying to silence dissidents who charge the union is too passive in the face of
GM
ORG
layoffs . Against that backdrop ,
UAW
ORG
Vice President
Stephen P. Yokich
PERSON
, who recently became head of the union 's
GM
ORG
department , issued a statement
Friday
DATE
blasting
GM
ORG
's " flagrant insensitivity " toward union members . The auto maker 's decision to let word of the latest shutdowns and product reassignments trickle out in separate communiques to the affected plants showed " disarray " and an " inability or unwillingness to provide consistent information , " Mr.
Yokich
PERSON
said .
GM
ORG
officials told workers
late last week
DATE
of the following moves : Production of full - sized vans will be consolidated into a single plant in
Flint
GPE
,
Mich
PERSON
. That means
two
CARDINAL
plants --
one
CARDINAL
in
Scarborough
GPE
,
Ontario
GPE
, and the other in
Lordstown
GPE
,
Ohio
GPE
-- probably will be shut down after
the end of 1991
DATE
. The shutdowns will idle
about 3,000
CARDINAL
Canadian
NORP
assembly workers and
about 2,500
CARDINAL
workers in
Ohio
GPE
.
Robert White
PERSON
,
Canadian Auto Workers
ORG
union president , used the impending
Scarborough
ORG
shutdown to criticize the
U.S.
GPE
-
Canada
GPE
free trade agreement and its champion , Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney
PERSON
. But
Canadian
NORP
auto workers may benefit from a separate
GM
ORG
move that affects
three
CARDINAL
U.S.
GPE
car plants and
one
CARDINAL
in
Quebec
GPE
. Workers at plants in
Van Nuys
GPE
,
Calif.
GPE
,
Oklahoma City
GPE
and
Pontiac
GPE
,
Mich.
GPE
, were told their facilities are no longer being considered to build the next generation of the
Pontiac
ORG
Firebird
PRODUCT
and
Chevrolet
ORG
Camaro
PRODUCT
muscle cars .
GM
ORG
is studying whether it can build the new
Camaro - Firebird
PRODUCT
profitably at a plant in
St. Therese
GPE
,
Quebec
GPE
, company and union officials said . That announcement left union officials in
Van Nuys
GPE
and
Oklahoma City
GPE
uncertain about their futures . The Van Nuys plant , which employs
about 3,000
CARDINAL
workers , does n't have a product to build after
1993
DATE
.
Jerry Shrieves
PERSON
,
UAW
ORG
local president , said the facility was asked to draw up plans to continue working as a " flex plant , " which could build several different types of products on short notice to satisfy demand . At the
Oklahoma City
GPE
plant , which employs
about 6,000
CARDINAL
workers building the
eight - year - old
DATE
A - body mid-sized cars ,
Steve Featherston
PERSON
,
UAW
ORG
local vice president , said the plant has no new product lined up , and " none of us knows " when the A - body cars will die . He said he believes
GM
ORG
has plans to keep building A - body cars into
the mid-1990s
DATE
. At
Pontiac
ORG
, however , the
Camaro
PERSON
- Firebird decision appears to erase
UAW
ORG
hopes that
GM
ORG
would reopen the shuttered assembly plant that last built the plastic - bodied ,
two
CARDINAL
- seater
Pontiac
ORG
Fiero
PRODUCT
model . The
Fiero
PERSON
plant was viewed as a model of union - management cooperation at
GM
ORG
before slow sales of the
Fiero
PERSON
forced the company to close the factory
last year
DATE
. Union officials have taken a beating politically as a result . Dissident
UAW
ORG
members have used the
Fiero
PERSON
plant as a symbol of labor - management cooperation 's failure .
BULL HN INFORMATION SYSTEMS Inc.
ORG
is a
U.S.
GPE
majority - owned unit of
Cie. des Machines Bull
ORG
. In
Friday
DATE
's edition , the name of the unit was misstated . The
Bronx
GPE
has a wonderful botanical garden , a great zoo , its own charming
Little Italy -LRB-
LOC
on
Arthur Avenue
FAC
-RRB- and , of course , the
Yankees
ORG
. However , most people , having been subjected to news footage of the devastated
South Bronx
LOC
, look at the borough the way
Tom Wolfe 's
PERSON
Sherman McCoy
PERSON
did in "
Bonfire of the Vanities
ORG
" -- as a wrong turn into hell . But
Laura Cunningham 's
PERSON
Bronx
GPE
, her childhood
Bronx
GPE
of
the '50s
DATE
, is something else altogether . In a lovely , novelistic memoir , "
Sleeping Arrangements " -LRB- Knopf
WORK_OF_ART
,
195
CARDINAL
pages , $
18.95
MONEY
-RRB- , she remembers an exotic playground , peopled mainly by
Jewish
NORP
eccentrics and the occasional
Catholic
NORP
-LRB- real oddballs like her sexpot friend , the hell - kitten
Diana
PERSON
, age five
-RRB-
PERSON
. Ms.
Cunningham
PERSON
, a novelist and playwright , has a vivid and dramatically outsized sense of recall . She transforms her " Bronx of the emotions , a place where the flats of mediocrity are only relieved by steep descents into hysteria " into the "
Babylonian
NORP
Bronx , " a world simmering with sex and death and intrigue .
In the
Babylonian
NORP
Bronx ,
Jewish
NORP
working - class people lived in drab ,
Soviet
NORP
- style buildings " glamorized " with names like
AnaMor
ORG
Towers -LRB- after owners
Anna
PERSON
and
Morris Snezak -RRB-
PERSON
, whose lobbies and hallways were decorated with murals of ancient
Syrians
NORP
and
Greeks
PERSON
, friezes of Pompeii . For Ms.
Cunningham
PERSON
the architectural discombobulation matched the discrepancy she felt living in the
AnaMor
ORG
Towers as a little girl : " ... outwardly ordinary , inwardly ornate , owing all inspiration to heathen cultures . " Sharp - witted and funny but never mean , she 's a memorialist a bit like
Truman Capote
PERSON
, if he 'd been
Jewish
NORP
and female and less bitchy . Little Lily , as Ms.
Cunningham
PERSON
calls herself in the book , really was n't ordinary . She was raised , for
the first eight years
DATE
, by her mother ,
Rosie
NORP
, whom she remembers as a loving liar , who realigned history to explain why
Lily
PERSON
's father did n't live with them .
Rosie
NORP
reinvented this man , who may or may not have known about his child , as a war hero for
Lily
PERSON
's benefit .
Rosie
NORP
died young and
Lily
PERSON
has remembered her as a romantic figure , who did n't interfere much with her child 's education on the streets . The games
Bronx
GPE
children played -LRB- holding kids down and stripping them , for example
-RRB-
PERSON
seem tame by
today
DATE
's crack standards , but Ms.
Cunningham
PERSON
makes it all sound like a great adventure . " Without official knowledge of sex or death , we flirted with both , " she writes . She analyzed families by their sleeping arrangements .
Her friend
Susan
PERSON
, whose parents kept reminding her she was unwanted , slept on a narrow bed wedged into her parents ' bedroom , as though she were a temporary visitor . Her friend
Diana
PERSON
's father was a professional thief ; they did n't seem to have any bedrooms at all . Maybe
Lily
PERSON
became so obsessed with where people slept and how because her own arrangements kept shifting . When
Rosie
NORP
died , her uncles moved in -- and let her make the sleeping and other household arrangements . They painted the apartment orange , pink and white , according to her instructions . With loving detail she recalls her
Uncle Gabe
PERSON
, an
Orthodox
NORP
Jew and song lyricist -LRB- who rhymed river with liver in a love song
-RRB-
PERSON
; and
Uncle Len
PERSON
, a mysterious part - time investigator who looked like
Lincoln
ORG
and carried a change of clothing in a
Manila
GPE
envelope , like an " undercover President on a good - will mission . " They came by their strangeness honestly .
Lily
PERSON
's grandmother , no cookie baker , excised the heads of disliked relatives from the family album , and lugged around her perennial work - in - progress , "
Philosophy for Women
WORK_OF_ART
. " The book loses some momentum toward the end , when
Lily
PERSON
becomes more preoccupied with dating boys and less with her delightfully weird family . For the most part , though , there 's much pleasure in her saucy , poignant probe into the mysteries of the
Babylonian
NORP
Bronx .
The
Bronx
GPE
also figures in
Bruce Jay Friedman 's
ORG
latest novel , which flashes back to
the New York
ORG
of
the '50s
DATE
. But both the past and present worlds of "
The Current Climate " -LRB- Atlantic Monthly Press
WORK_OF_ART
,
200
CARDINAL
pages , $
18.95
MONEY
-RRB- feel cramped and static . For his
sixth
ORDINAL
novel , Mr.
Friedman
PERSON
tried to resuscitate the protagonist of his
1972
DATE
work , " About
Harry Towns
PERSON
. "
Harry
PERSON
is now a
57 - year - old
DATE
writer , whose continuing flirtation with drugs and marginal types in
Hollywood
GPE
and
New York
GPE
seems quaintly out - of - synch .
Harry
PERSON
fondly remembers the " old " days of the early '70s , when people like his friend
Travis
PERSON
would take a psychiatrist on a date to analyze what
Travis
PERSON
was doing wrong . " An
L.A.
GPE
solution , " explains Mr.
Friedman
PERSON
. Line by line Mr.
Friedman
PERSON
's weary cynicism can be amusing , especially when he 's riffing on the
Hollywood
GPE
social scheme -- the way people size each other up , immediately canceling the desperate ones who merely almost made it .
Harry
PERSON
has avoided all that by living in a
Long Island
LOC
suburb with his wife , who 's so addicted to soap operas and mystery novels she barely seems to notice when her husband disappears for drug - seeking forays into
Manhattan
GPE
. But it does n't take too many lines to figure
Harry
PERSON
out . He 's a bore .
The
U.S.
GPE
, which is finalizing its steel - import quotas , is allocating a larger share of its steel market to developing and newly industrialized countries which have relatively unsubsidized steel industries . Meanwhile , the
U.S.
GPE
has negotiated a significant cut in
Japan
GPE
's steel quota , and made only a minor increase to the steel allotment for
the European Community
ORG
.
Brazil
GPE
, similar to
Mexico
GPE
and
South Korea
GPE
, is expected to negotiate a somewhat bigger share of the
U.S.
GPE
market than it had under the previous
five - year
DATE
steel quotas , which expired
Sept. 30
DATE
.
Brazil
GPE
and
Venezuela
GPE
are the only
two
CARDINAL
countries that have n't completed steel talks with the
U.S.
GPE
for
the year ending Oct. 1 , 1990
DATE
. In
recent years
DATE
,
U.S.
GPE
steelmakers have supplied
about 80 %
PERCENT
of
the 100 million tons
QUANTITY
of steel used
annually
DATE
by the nation . Of
the remaining
PERCENT
20 %
PERCENT
needed , the steel - quota negotiations allocate
about 15 %
PERCENT
to foreign suppliers , with the difference supplied mainly by
Canada
GPE
-- which is n't included in the quota program . Other countries that do n't have formal steel quotas with the
U.S.
GPE
, such as
Taiwan
GPE
,
Sweden
GPE
and
Argentina
GPE
, also have supplied steel . Some of these countries have in
recent years
DATE
made informal agreements with the
U.S.
GPE
that are similar to quotas . The
Bush
PERSON
administration
earlier this year
DATE
said it would extend steel quotas , known as voluntary restraint agreements , until
March 31 , 1992
DATE
.
It also said it would use that
two
CARDINAL
- and - a - half year period to work toward an international consensus on freeing up the international steel trade , which has been notoriously managed , subsidized and protected by governments . The
U.S.
GPE
termed its plan , a " trade liberalization program , " despite the fact that it is merely an extension .
Mexico
GPE
, which was
one
CARDINAL
of the
first
ORDINAL
countries to conclude its steel talks with the
U.S.
GPE
, virtually doubled its quota to
0.95 %
PERCENT
of the
U.S.
GPE
steel market from
0.48 %
PERCENT
under the previous quotas .
South Korea
GPE
, which had
1.9 %
PERCENT
under the previous quotas , is set to get a small increase to
about 1.95 %
PERCENT
. That increase rises to slightly more than 2 % of the
U.S.
GPE
market if a joint
Korean
NORP
-
U.S.
GPE
steel project is included . Meanwhile ,
Brazil
GPE
is expected to increase its allowance from the
1.43 %
PERCENT
share it has had in
recent years
DATE
. The
EC
ORG
and
Japan
GPE
-- the
U.S.
GPE
's largest steel suppliers -- have n't been filling their quotas to the full extent . The
EC
ORG
steel industry , which has been coping with strong
European
NORP
demand , has been supplying
about 5 %
PERCENT
of the
U.S.
GPE
market compared with recent quotas of
about 6.7 %
PERCENT
.
Japan
GPE
has been shipping steel to total
about 4.5 %
PERCENT
of the
U.S.
GPE
market compared with a quota of
5.9 %
PERCENT
. In the recent talks , the
EC
ORG
had its quota increased
about 300,000 tons
QUANTITY
, to
7 %
PERCENT
of the
U.S.
GPE
market from
6.7 %
PERCENT
in
1988
DATE
.
But its quota has been as high as
6.9 %
PERCENT
in
1984
DATE
.
Japan
GPE
, however , has agreed to cut its quota to
about 5 %
PERCENT
from
5.9 %
PERCENT
previously .
Japan
GPE
, the
EC
ORG
,
Brazil
GPE
,
Mexico
GPE
and
South Korea
GPE
provide
about 80 %
PERCENT
of the steel imported to the
U.S.
GPE
under the quota program . The balance is supplied by a host of smaller exporters , such as
Australia
GPE
and
Venezuela
GPE
. The
U.S.
GPE
had about an extra 2 % of the domestic steel market to give to foreign suppliers in its quota talks . That was essentially made up of a
1 %
PERCENT
increase in the overall quota program and
1 %
PERCENT
from cutting
Japan
GPE
's allowance . Negotiators from
the White House
ORG
trade office will repeat these quota negotiations
next year
DATE
when they will have
another 1 %
PERCENT
of the
U.S.
GPE
steel market to allocate . These optional
1 %
PERCENT
- a - year increases to the steel quota program are built into the
Bush
PERSON
administration 's steel - quota program to give its negotiators leverage with foreign steel suppliers to try to get them to withdraw subsidies and protectionism from their own steel industries . With economic tension between the
U.S.
GPE
and
Japan
GPE
worsening , many
Japanese
NORP
had feared
last week 's
DATE
visit from
U.S.
GPE
Trade Representative
Carla Hills
PERSON
.
They expected a new barrage of demands that
Japan
GPE
do something quickly to reduce its trade surplus with the
U.S.
GPE
. Instead , they got a discussion of the need for the
U.S.
GPE
and
Japan
GPE
to work together and of the importance of the long - term view . Mrs.
Hills
PERSON
'
first
ORDINAL
trip to
Japan
GPE
as
America
GPE
's chief trade negotiator had a completely different tone from
last month 's
DATE
visit by
Commerce
ORG
Secretary
Robert A. Mosbacher
PERSON
. Mr.
Mosbacher
PERSON
called for concrete results by
next spring
DATE
in negotiations over fundamental
Japanese
NORP
business practices that supposedly inhibit free trade . He said such results should be " measurable in dollars and cents " in reducing the
U.S.
GPE
trade deficit with
Japan
GPE
. But Mrs.
Hills
PERSON
, speaking at a breakfast meeting of
the American Chamber of Commerce
ORG
in
Japan
GPE
on
Saturday
DATE
, stressed that the objective " is not to get definitive action by
spring
DATE
or
summer
DATE
, it is rather to have a blueprint for action . " She added that she expected " perhaps to have a down payment ... some small step to convince the
American
NORP
people and the
Japanese
NORP
people that we 're moving in earnest . " How such remarks translate into policy wo n't become clear for
months
DATE
.
American
NORP
and
Japanese
NORP
officials offered several theories for the difference in approach betwen Mr.
Mosbacher
PERSON
and Mrs.
Hills
PERSON
. Many called it simply a contrast in styles .
But some saw it as a classic negotiating tactic . Others said the
Bush
PERSON
administration may feel the rhetoric on both sides is getting out of hand . And some said it reflected the growing debate in
Washington
GPE
over pursuing free trade with
Japan
GPE
versus some kind of managed trade . Asked to compare her visit to Mr.
Mosbacher
PERSON
's , Mrs.
Hills
PERSON
replied : " I did n't hear every word he spoke , but as a general proposition , I think we have a very consistent trade strategy in the
Bush
PERSON
administration . " Yet
more than one
CARDINAL
American
NORP
official who sat in with her during
three days
DATE
of talks with
Japanese
NORP
officials said her tone often was surprisingly " conciliatory . " " I think my line has been very consistent , " Mrs.
Hills
PERSON
said at a news conference
Saturday
DATE
afternoon
TIME
. " I am painted sometimes as ferocious , perhaps because I have a ferocious list of statutes to implement . I do n't feel very ferocious . I do n't feel either hard or soft . I feel committed to the program of opening markets and expanding trade . "
When she met the local press for the
first
ORDINAL
time on
Friday
DATE
, Mrs.
Hills
PERSON
firmly reiterated the need for progress in removing barriers to trade in forest products , satellites and supercomputers ,
three
CARDINAL
areas targeted under the Super 301 provision of the
1988
DATE
trade bill . She highlighted exclusionary business practices that the
U.S.
GPE
government has identified . But her main thrust was to promote the importance of world - wide free trade and open competition . She said the trade imbalance was mainly due to macroeconomic factors and should n't be tackled by setting quantitative targets . At her news conference for
Japanese
NORP
reporters ,
one
CARDINAL
economics journalist summed up the
Japanese
NORP
sense of relief . " My impression was that you would be a scary old lady , " he said , drawing a few nervous chuckles from his colleagues . " But I am relieved to see that you are beautiful and gentle and intelligent and a person of integrity . " Mrs.
Hills
PERSON
' remarks did raise questions , at least among some
U.S.
GPE
officials , about what exactly her stance is on
U.S.
GPE
access to the
Japanese
NORP
semiconductor market . The
U.S.
GPE
share of the
Japanese
NORP
market has been stuck
around 10 %
PERCENT
for
years
DATE
. Many
Americans
NORP
have interpreted a
1986
DATE
agreement as assuring
U.S.
GPE
companies a
20 %
PERCENT
share by
1991
DATE
, but the
Japanese
NORP
have denied making any such promise .
At
one
CARDINAL
of her news conferences , Mrs.
Hills
PERSON
said , " I believe we can do much better than
20 %
PERCENT
. " But she stressed , " I am against managed trade . I will not enter into an agreement that stipulates to a percentage of the market . The only thing
Robert Goldberg
PERSON
could praise about
CBS
ORG
's new show "
Island Son " -LRB- Leisure & Arts
WORK_OF_ART
,
Sept. 25
DATE
-RRB-
PERSON
was the local color ; unfortunately neither he nor the producers of the show have done their homework . For instance : "
Haole
PRODUCT
" -LRB- white
-RRB-
PERSON
is not the ultimate insult ; " Mainland haole " is .
Richard Chamberlain
PERSON
dresses as a " Mainland haole , " tucking in a
Hawaiian
NORP
shirt and rolling up its long sleeves . And the local expression for brother is " brah , " not " bruddah . " And even if a nurse would wear flowers in her hair while on duty , if she were engaged she would know to wear them behind her left , not right , ear . Sorry , the show does not even have the
one
CARDINAL
redeeming quality of genuine local color .
Anita
Davis
PERSON
Do n't jump yet . The stock market 's swoon may turn out to be good news for the economy . In
one wild hour
TIME
of trading , the market managed to accomplish what the
Bush
PERSON
administration has been trying to do , unsuccessfully , for
weeks
DATE
. It is forcing
the Federal Reserve
ORG
to ease its grip on credit and it took the wind out of a previously irrepressible dollar . The resulting decline in interest rates and the value of the dollar could reinvigorate
American
NORP
business -- indeed , the entire economy . This may sound strangely optimistic . After all , until
a few years ago
DATE
, the stock market was viewed as a barometer of the national economy . When it went down , by all tradition , the economy followed .
That has changed , partly because
the two years
DATE
following the worst stock - market plunge in history have been reasonably comfortable . The
1987
DATE
crash was " a false alarm however you view it , " says
University of Chicago
ORG
economist
Victor Zarnowitz
PERSON
. The market seems increasingly disconnected from the rest of the nation . Its spasms ca n't be traced to fundamental business conditions , nor do they appear to presage major shifts in the economy . " The market
today
DATE
has a life of its own , "
John Akers
PERSON
, chairman of
International Business Machines Corp.
ORG
, said
Saturday
DATE
. " There 's nothing rational about this kind of action . " Of course , the health of the economy will be threatened if the market continues to dive
this week
DATE
. Sharply falling stock prices do reduce consumer wealth , damage business confidence and discourage the foreign investors upon whom the
U.S.
GPE
now relies for financial sustenance . The financial - services industry was battered by the
1987
DATE
crash . What 's more , although the stock market is far less overvalued
today than two years ago
DATE
, the
U.S.
GPE
economy is weaker .
Growth is slower . Profits are softer . Debt burdens are heavier . But if the stock market does n't continue to plummet , the beneficial effects of lower interest rates and a lower dollar may well dominate . The
Fed
ORG
, which until
Friday
DATE
had been resisting moves to ease credit , is now poised to pour money into the economy if needed to soothe the markets .
Fed
ORG
officials may protest that this does n't necessarily mean a fundamental change in their interest - rate policies . But the experience of the
1987
DATE
crash suggests the
Fed
ORG
is likely to bring down short - term interest rates in its effort to calm markets . Anticipating the
Fed
ORG
's move , money traders lowered a key interest rate known as the
Federal Funds
ORG
rate to
8.625 %
PERCENT
late Friday
DATE
, down from
8.820 %
PERCENT
the day before
DATE
. Tiny movements in the rate , which is what banks charge each other for overnight loans , are usually among the few visible tracks that the
Fed
ORG
leaves on the monetary markets . The dollar also began to decline
Friday
DATE
as the stock market 's plunge caused some investors to reassess their desire to invest in the
U.S.
GPE
.
Treasury
ORG
officials have been arguing for
months
DATE
that the dollar 's strength was out of whack with economic fundamentals , threatening to extinguish the export boom that has sustained manufacturers for
several years
DATE
. The market drop has now apparently convinced foreign investors that the
Treasury
ORG
was right about the overpriced dollar . A modest drop in the dollar -- only a modest one , mind you -- would be welcomed by the
U.S.
GPE
. That was n't the case in
1987
DATE
, when the dollar was so weak that some economists and government officials seriously worried that it might collapse , producing panic among foreign investors and diminishing the flow of foreign capital to the
U.S.
GPE
. Another big difference
between 1987 and 1989
DATE
is n't so comforting . In
the third quarter of 1987
DATE
, the economy spurted at an inflation - adjusted
annual
DATE
rate of
5.3 %
PERCENT
. The consensus among economists is that it grew a much more sluggish
2.3 %
PERCENT
in
the third quarter of 1989
DATE
, which ended
two weeks ago
DATE
. The plunge in stock prices " is happening at a time when the economy has already slowed down , " says economist
Lawrence Chimerine
PERSON
of
WEFA Group
ORG
, a
Bala Cynwyd
GPE
,
Pa.
GPE
, forecasting company . " A lot of pent - up demand is gone . " Consumer spending did drop in
the months
DATE
following
Black Monday
EVENT
1987
DATE
-- " but only slightly and for a short period of time , " recalls Mr.
Zarnowitz
PERSON
, a longtime student of business cycles .
" That was offset by strength elsewhere . -LCB- The effects -RCB- were much less severe and less prolonged than some had feared or expected . "
Today
DATE
, he frets , exports and business investment spending may be insufficient to pick up the slack if stock prices sink
this week
DATE
and if consumers retrench in reaction . What 's more , the corporate borrowing binge has n't abated in
the past two years
DATE
. " We 've had
two more years
DATE
of significant accumulation of debt ... just at the time when earnings are being squeezed , " Mr.
Chimerine
PERSON
notes . The more a company relies on borrowed money , the greater its sensitivity to an economic slowdown . A company with a strong balance sheet can withstand an unanticipated storm ; a highly leveraged company may end up in bankruptcy court . The
Fed
ORG
, of course , knows that very well -- hence its readiness to pump credit into the economy
this morning
TIME
. But , in the process , the
Fed
ORG
risks reigniting inflation . Even before
Friday
DATE
's events ,
Harvard University
ORG
economist
Benjamin Friedman
PERSON
was arguing that the
Fed
ORG
wo n't be able to live up to its tough words on eliminating inflation because of its responsibility to protect fragile financial markets , banks and highly leveraged corporations .
The biggest threat on the economic horizon right now is n't recession , he reasons ; it 's an outbreak of uncontrolled inflation . In the end , the
1987
DATE
collapse suggested , the economy does n't move in lockstep with stock prices . The economy does , however , depend on the confidence of businesses , consumers and foreign investors . A panic on Wall Street does n't exactly inspire confidence . Surveys suggested that consumer confidence was high before
Friday
DATE
. A
190
CARDINAL
- point drop is n't likely to make much of a dent ; multiply that a few times over , though , and it will . If the reactions of executives gathered
Saturday
DATE
at
Hot Springs
GPE
,
Va.
GPE
, for
the Business Council
ORG
meetings are typical , business leaders were n't overly rattled by
Friday
DATE
's decline . And if foreign investors become a tad more cautious -- well , the dollar 's recent strength suggests that the
U.S.
GPE
can stand it . On the bottom line , the most comforting fact for the economic outlook is that we 've been through this before .
Two years ago
DATE
, about the only point of comparison was the
1929
DATE
crash and the subsequent Depression .
The doomsayers had a receptive audience . The prosperity that followed
Black Monday
EVENT
permits a more optimistic view
today
DATE
. At the very least , the establishment here is taking comfort from the nation 's success in handling the last go - around . As Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen -LRB-
PERSON
D.
NORP
,
Texas
GPE
-RRB-
PERSON
observed
yesterday
DATE
, " The
Fed
ORG
avoided a meltdown last time . They are more sophisticated this time . While corn and soybean prices have slumped well below their drought - induced peaks of
1988
DATE
, wheat prices remain stubbornly high . And they 're likely to stay that way for
months
DATE
to come , analysts say . For
one
CARDINAL
thing , even with many farmers planting more
winter
DATE
wheat
this year
DATE
than last , tight wheat supplies are likely to support prices well into
1990
DATE
, the analysts say . And if rain does n't fall soon across many of
the Great Plains '
FAC
wheat - growing areas , yields in the crop now being planted could be reduced , further squeezing supplies .
Also supporting prices are expectations that
the Soviet Union
GPE
will place substantial buying orders over
the next few months
DATE
. By
next May 31
DATE
, stocks of
U.S.
GPE
wheat to be carried over into
the next season
DATE
-- before the
winter
DATE
wheat now being planted is harvested -- are projected to drop to
443 million
CARDINAL
bushels . That would be the lowest level since
the early 1970s
DATE
. Stocks were
698 million
CARDINAL
bushels on
May 31 of this year
DATE
. In response to dwindling domestic supplies ,
Agriculture
ORG
Secretary
Clayton Yeutter
PERSON
last month
DATE
said the
U.S.
GPE
government would slightly increase the number of acres farmers can plant in wheat for
next year
DATE
and still qualify for federal support payments . The government estimates that the new plan will boost production
next year
DATE
by
about 66 million
QUANTITY
bushels . It now estimates production for
next year
DATE
at
just under 2.6 billion
QUANTITY
bushels , compared with this
year
DATE
's estimated
2.04 billion
MONEY
and a drought - stunted
1.81 billion
MONEY
in
1988
DATE
. But the full effect on prices of the
winter
DATE
wheat now being planted wo n't be felt until
the second half of next year
DATE
. Until then , limited stocks are likely to keep prices near the
$ 4 -
MONEY
a - bushel level , analysts say . On
the Chicago Board of Trade
ORG
Friday
DATE
, wheat for
December
DATE
delivery settled at $
4.0675
MONEY
a bushel , unchanged .
In theory at least , tight supplies
next spring
DATE
could leave the wheat futures market susceptible to a supply - demand squeeze , said
Daniel Basse
PERSON
, a futures analyst with
AgResource Co.
ORG
in
Chicago
GPE
. Such a situation can wreak havoc , as was shown by the emergency that developed in soybean futures trading
this summer
DATE
on
the Chicago Board of Trade
ORG
. In
July
DATE
, the CBOT ordered
Ferruzzi Finanziaria S.p . A.
ORG
to liquidate futures positions equal to
about 23 million
CARDINAL
bushels of soybeans . The exchange said it feared that some members would n't be able to find enough soybeans to deliver and would have to default on their contractual obligation to the
Italian
NORP
conglomerate , which had refused requests to reduce its holdings .
Ferruzzi
ORG
has denied it was trying to manipulate the soybean futures market . Unseasonably hot , dry weather across large portions of
the Great Plains
FAC
and in wheat - growing areas in
Washington
GPE
and
Oregon
GPE
is threatening to reduce the yield from this
season
DATE
's
winter
DATE
wheat crop , said
Conrad Leslie
PERSON
, a futures analyst and head of
Leslie Analytical
PERSON
in
Chicago
GPE
. For example , in the
Oklahoma
GPE
panhandle ,
40 %
PERCENT
or more of the topsoil is short of moisture . That figure climbs to
about 47 %
PERCENT
in wheat - growing portions of
Kansas
GPE
, he said .
The Soviet Union
GPE
has n't given any clear indication of its wheat purchase plans , but many analysts expect
Moscow
GPE
to place sizable orders for
U.S.
GPE
wheat in
the next few months
DATE
, further supporting prices . " Wheat prices will increasingly pivot off of
Soviet
NORP
demand " in
coming weeks
DATE
, predicted
Richard Feltes
PERSON
, vice president , research , for
Refco Inc.
ORG
in
Chicago
GPE
.
Looking ahead to other commodity markets
this week
DATE
:
Orange Juice Traders
ORG
will be watching to see how long and how far the price decline that began
Friday
DATE
will go .
Late Thursday
TIME
, after the close of trading , the market received what would normally have been a bullish
U.S. Department of Agriculture
ORG
estimate of the
1989 - 90
DATE
Florida
GPE
orange crop . It was near the low range of estimates , at
130 million
MONEY
90 - pound
QUANTITY
boxes , compared with
146.6 million
CARDINAL
boxes
last season
DATE
. However , as expected ,
Brazil
GPE
waited for the crop estimate to come out and then cut the export price of its juice concentrate to
about $ 1.34
MONEY
a pound from
around $ 1.55
MONEY
.
Friday
DATE
's consequent selling of futures contracts erased whatever supportive effect the
U.S.
GPE
report might have had and sent the
November
DATE
orange juice contract down
as much as 6.55 cents
MONEY
a pound at
one
CARDINAL
time . It settled with a loss of
4.95 cents
MONEY
at $
1.3210
MONEY
a pound .
Brazilian
NORP
juice , after a delay caused by drought at the start of its crop season , is beginning to arrive in the
U.S.
GPE
in large quantities .
Brazil
GPE
wants to stimulate demand for its product , which is going to be in plentiful supply . The price cut ,
one
CARDINAL
analyst said , appeared to be aimed even more at
Europe
LOC
, where consumption of
Brazilian
NORP
juice has fallen .
It 's a dollar - priced product , and the strong dollar has made it more expensive in
Europe
LOC
, the analyst said .
New York
GPE
futures prices have dropped significantly from
more than $ 2
MONEY
a pound at
midyear
DATE
. Barring a cold snap or other crop problems in the growing areas , downward pressure on prices is likely to continue into
January
DATE
, when harvesting and processing of oranges in
Florida
GPE
reach their peak , the analyst said . Energy Although some analysts look for profit - taking in the wake of
Friday
DATE
's leap in crude oil prices ,
last week 's
DATE
rally is generally expected to continue
this week
DATE
. " I would continue to look for a stable crude market , at least in futures " trading , said
William Hinton
PERSON
, an energy futures broker with
Stotler & Co
ORG
.
Friday
DATE
capped
a week
DATE
of steadily rising crude oil prices in both futures and spot markets . On
the New York Mercantile Exchange
ORG
,
West Texas Intermediate
PRODUCT
crude for
November
DATE
delivery finished at $
20.89
MONEY
a barrel , up
42 cents
MONEY
on
the day
DATE
. On
European
NORP
markets , meanwhile , spot prices of
North Sea
LOC
crudes were up
35
CARDINAL
to
75 cents
MONEY
a barrel . " This market still wants to go higher , " said
Nauman Barakat
PERSON
, a
first
ORDINAL
vice president at
Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc
ORG
.
He predicted that the
November
DATE
contract will reach $
21.50
MONEY
a barrel or more on
the New York Mercantile Exchange
ORG
. There has been little news to account for such buoyancy in the oil markets . Analysts generally cite a lack of bearish developments as well as rumors of a possible tightening of supplies of some fuels and crudes . There also are recurring reports that
the Soviet Union
GPE
is having difficulties with its oil exports and that
Nigeria
GPE
has about reached its production limit and ca n't produce as much as it could sell . Many traders foresee a tightening of near - term supplies , particularly of high - quality crudes such as those produced in
the North Sea
LOC
and in
Nigeria
GPE
.
The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
ORG
opinion in the
Arcadian Phosphate
ORG
case did not repudiate the position
Pennzoil Co.
ORG
took in its dispute with
Texaco
ORG
, contrary to your
Sept. 8
DATE
article "
Court Backs Texaco 's
WORK_OF_ART
View in Pennzoil Case -- Too Late . " The fundamental rule of contract law applied to both cases was that courts will not enforce agreements to which the parties did not intend to be bound . In the
Pennzoil
ORG
/
Texaco
ORG
litigation , the courts found
Pennzoil
ORG
and
Getty Oil
ORG
intended to be bound ; in
Arcadian
NORP
Phosphates they found there was no intention to be bound . Admittedly , the principle in the cases is the same .
But the outcome of a legal dispute almost always turns on the facts . And the facts , as found by the various courts in these
two
CARDINAL
lawsuits , were different . When you suggest otherwise , you leave the realm of reporting and enter the orbit of speculation .
Charles F. Vihon Avis Inc.
PERSON
, following rival
Hertz Corp. 's
ORG
lead , said it is backing out of frequent - flier programs with
three
CARDINAL
airlines .
The Garden City
GPE
,
N.Y.
GPE
, car - rental company said it wo n't renew contracts with
NWA Inc. 's
ORG
Northwest Airlines
ORG
unit ,
Pan Am Corp. 's
ORG
Pan American World Airways
ORG
unit and
Midway Airlines
ORG
at
the end of this year
DATE
. But it remains involved in programs with
AMR Corp. 's
ORG
American Airlines
ORG
unit and
Delta Air Lines
ORG
. Industry estimates put
Avis
PERSON
's
annual
DATE
cost of all
five
CARDINAL
programs at
between $ 8 million and $ 14 million
MONEY
. A spokesman for
Avis
PERSON
would n't specify the costs but said the
three
CARDINAL
airlines being dropped account for " far less than half " of the total .
Budget Rent a Car Corp. , of
Chicago
GPE
, and
National Car Rental Systems Inc.
ORG
, of
Minneapolis
GPE
, both said they had no plans to follow suit . In fact ,
Budget
ORG
indicated it saw some benefit to staying involved in these programs , in which renters earn frequent - flier miles and fliers can get car - rental discounts . " I can not see how this news by
Hertz
ORG
and Avis can not benefit
Budget
ORG
's programs , " said
Bob Wilson
PERSON
,
Budget
ORG
's vice president , marketing planning .
Northwest
ORG
and
Midway
ORG
are
two
CARDINAL
of the
five
CARDINAL
airlines with which
Budget
ORG
has agreements . National also participates in the Northwest frequent - flier program along with
four
CARDINAL
other airlines , including
Delta
ORG
and
USAir Group Inc. 's
ORG
USAir
ORG
unit .
A month ago
DATE
,
Hertz
ORG
, of
Park Ridge
GPE
,
N.J.
GPE
, said that it would drop its marketing agreements at
year end
DATE
with
Delta
LOC
,
America
GPE
West and
Texas Air Corp. 's
ORG
Continental Airlines
ORG
and
Eastern Airlines
ORG
, and that pacts with
American Airlines
ORG
,
UAL Inc 's
ORG
United Airlines
ORG
and
USAir
ORG
also would be ended ... sometime after
Dec. 31
DATE
. At the time ,
Hertz
ORG
said its
annual
DATE
fees to those airlines amounted to
$ 20 million
MONEY
and that the value of redeemed awards topped
$ 15 million
MONEY
. Analysts and competitors , however , doubt the numbers were that high .
Budget
ORG
said its frequent - flier costs are " substantially below "
Avis
PERSON
's level .
Robert D. Cardillo
PERSON
, Avis vice president of marketing , said , " The proliferation and costs attached to -LCB- frequent - flier programs -RCB- have significantly diminished their value . "
This year
DATE
has been difficult for both
Hertz
ORG
and Avis , said
Charles Finnie
PERSON
, car - rental industry analyst at
Alex . Brown & Sons
ORG
. " They 've been looking to get their costs down , and this is a fairly sensible way to do it , " he said .
Atco Ltd.
ORG
said its utilities arm is considering building new electric power plants , some valued at
more than one billion Canadian dollars
MONEY
-LRB-
US$ 851 million
MONEY
-RRB- , in
Great Britain
GPE
and elsewhere .
C.S. Richardson
PERSON
,
Atco
ORG
's senior vice president , finance , said its
50.1 %
PERCENT
- owned
Canadian Utilities Ltd.
ORG
unit is reviewing cogeneration projects in eastern
Canada
GPE
, and conventional electric power generating plants elsewhere , including
Britain
GPE
, where the
British
NORP
government plans to allow limited competition in electrical generation from private - sector suppliers as part of its privatization program . " The projects are big . They can be
C$ 1 billion
MONEY
plus , " Mr.
Richardson
PERSON
said . " But we would n't go into them alone , " and
Canadian Utilities '
ORG
equity stake would be small , he said . " Ideally , we 'd like to be the operator -LCB- of the project -RCB- and a modest equity investor . Our long suit is our proven ability to operate " power plants , he said .
Mr.
Richardson
PERSON
would n't offer specifics regarding
Atco
ORG
's proposed
British
NORP
project , but he said it would compete for customers with
two
CARDINAL
huge
British
NORP
power generating companies that would be formed under the country 's plan to privatize its massive water and electric utilities .
Britain
GPE
's government plans to raise
about # 20 billion -LRB-
MONEY
$ 31.05 billion
MONEY
-RRB- from the sale of most of its giant water and electric utilities , beginning
next month
DATE
. The planned electric utility sale , scheduled for
next year
DATE
, is alone expected to raise
# 13 billion
MONEY
, making it the world 's largest public offering . Under terms of the plan , independent generators would be able to compete for
15 %
PERCENT
of customers until
1994
DATE
, and for
another 10 %
PERCENT
between 1994 and 1998
DATE
.
Canadian Utilities
ORG
had
1988
DATE
revenue of
C$ 1.16 billion
MONEY
, mainly from its natural gas and electric utility businesses in
Alberta
GPE
, where the company serves
about 800,000
CARDINAL
customers . " There seems to be a move around the world to deregulate the generation of electricity , " Mr.
Richardson
PERSON
said , and
Canadian Utilities
ORG
hopes to capitalize on it . " This is a real thrust on our utility side , " he said , adding that
Canadian Utilities
ORG
is also mulling projects in underdeveloped countries , though he would be specific .
Canadian Utilities
ORG
is n't alone in exploring power generation opportunities in
Britain
GPE
, in anticipation of the privatization program . " We 're certainly looking at some power generating projects in
England
GPE
, " said
Bruce Stram
PERSON
, vice president , corporate strategy and corporate planning , with
Enron Corp.
ORG
,
Houston
GPE
, a big natural gas producer and pipeline operator . Mr.
Stram
PERSON
said
Enron
ORG
is considering building gas - fired power plants in the
U.K.
GPE
capable of producing
about 500 megawatts
QUANTITY
of power at a cost of
about $ 300 million to $ 400 million
MONEY
.
Honeywell Inc.
ORG
and
International Business Machines Corp.
ORG
received
Air Force
ORG
contracts to develop integrated circuits for use in space .
Honeywell
ORG
's contract totaled
$ 69.7 million
MONEY
, and
IBM
ORG
's
$ 68.8 million
MONEY
.
Boeing Co.
ORG
received a
$ 46.7 million
MONEY
Air Force
ORG
contract for developing cable systems for
the Minuteman Missile
WORK_OF_ART
.
General Dynamics Corp.
ORG
received a
$ 29 million
MONEY
Air Force
ORG
contract for electronic - warfare training sets .
Grumman Corp.
ORG
received an
$ 18.1 million
MONEY
Navy
ORG
contract to upgrade aircraft electronics .
Avco Corp.
ORG
received an
$ 11.8 million
MONEY
Army
ORG
contract for helicopter engines .
Weatherford International Inc.
ORG
said it canceled plans for a preferred - stock swap but may resume payment of dividends on the stock , and added that it expects to publicly offer
about 10 million
CARDINAL
common shares . The company said it planned to offer an undetermined number of common shares in exchange for the
585,000
CARDINAL
shares of its preferred stock outstanding .
The exchange ratio was never established .
Weatherford
ORG
said market conditions led to the cancellation of the planned exchange . The energy - services concern said , however , that in
January 1990
DATE
, it may resume payments of dividends on the preferred stock .
Weatherford
PERSON
suspended its preferred - dividend payment in
October 1985
DATE
and said it has n't any plans to catch up on dividends in arrears
about $ 6 million
MONEY
, but will do so some time in the future . Additionally , the company said it filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission
ORG
for the proposed offering of
10 million
CARDINAL
shares of common stock , expected to be offered in
November
DATE
. The company said
Salomon Brothers Inc.
ORG
and
Howard , Weil ,
PERSON
Labouisse
GPE
,
Friedrichs Inc.
ORG
, underwriters for the offering , were granted an option to buy as much as an additional 1.5 million shares to cover over - allotments . Proceeds will be used to eliminate and restructure bank debt .
Weatherford
ORG
currently has
approximately 11.1 million
CARDINAL
common shares outstanding . Regarding the
Oct. 3
DATE
letter to the editor from Rep.
Tom Lantos
PERSON
, chairman of
the House Subcommittee on Employment and Housing
ORG
, alleging :
1
CARDINAL
. That your
Sept. 28
DATE
editorial " Kangaroo Committees " was factually inaccurate and deliberately misleading . I thought your editorial was factually accurate and deliberately elucidative .
2
CARDINAL
. That Mr.
Lantos
PERSON
supported the rights of the witnesses to take
the Fifth Amendment
LAW
. Yes , he did . As I watched him on
C - Span
ORG
, I heard him speak those lovely words about
the Bill of Rights
LAW
, which he quotes from the transcript of the hearings . He did repeat those nice platitudes several times as an indication of his support for the
Constitution
LAW
. He used
about 56
CARDINAL
words defending the witnesses ' constitutional rights . Unfortunately , by my rough guess , he used better than
5,000
CARDINAL
words heaping scorn on the witnesses for exercising the
Fifth
ORDINAL
. He sandwiched his praise of constitutional meat between large loaves of bilious commentary . As your editorial rightly pointed out ,
Samuel Pierce
PERSON
, former
HUD
ORG
secretary , and
Lance Wilson
PERSON
, Mr.
Pierce
PERSON
's former aide , " are currently being held up to scorn for taking
the Fifth Amendment
LAW
.
" That certainly is not the supposed " distorted reading " indicated by Mr.
Lantos
PERSON
.
3
CARDINAL
. That his " committee does not deal with any possible criminal activity at
HUD
ORG
. My colleagues and I fully realize we are not a court ... etc . " Absolute rubbish . By any " reasonable man " criterion , Mr.
Lantos
PERSON
and his colleagues have a whole bunch of people tried and convicted . Apparently , their verdict is in . Right now they 're pursuing evidence . That 's not a bad way to proceed , just somewhat different from standard
American
NORP
practice . How was that practice referred to when I was in school ? Ah , yes , something called a Star Chamber .
Of course , Mr.
Lantos
PERSON
doth protest that his subcommittee simply seeks information for legislative change . No doubt that 's partially true . Everything that Mr.
Lantos
PERSON
says in his letter is partially true . He 's right about his subcommittee 's responsibilities when it comes to obtaining information from prior
HUD
ORG
officials . But if his explanation of motivation is true , why is his investigation so oriented as to identify criminal activity ? Why not simply questions designed to identify sources and causes of waste and inefficiency ? Such as , what happened when
Congress
ORG
wanted to know
about $ 400
MONEY
toilet seats or whatever they supposedly cost ? No , Mr.
Lantos
PERSON
's complaints simply wo n't wash .
4 .
CARDINAL
That the
Journal
ORG
defends " the sleaze , fraud , waste , embezzlement , influence - peddling and abuse of the public that took place while Mr.
Pierce
PERSON
was secretary of
HUD
ORG
, " etc. and so forth . No , to my mind , the
Journal
ORG
did not " defend sleaze , fraud , waste , embezzlement , influence - peddling and abuse of the public trust ... "
it defended appropriate constitutional safeguards and practical common sense . The problem , which the
Journal
ORG
so rightly pointed out in a number of articles , is not the likes of Mr.
Lantos
PERSON
, who after all is really a bit player on the stage , but the attempt by
Congress
ORG
to enhance itself into a quasi-parliamentary / judicial body . -LRB- Of course , we 've also got a judiciary that seeks the same objective . -RRB- The system is the problem , not an individual member . Individuals can always have their hands slapped . It 's when such slapping does n't occur that we 've got trouble . I do not by any means defend
HUD
ORG
management . But I think the kind of congressional investigation that has been pursued is a far greater danger to
American
NORP
notions of liberty and freedom than any incompetency -LRB- and , yes , maybe criminality
-RRB-
PERSON
within
HUD
ORG
could possibly generate . The last time I saw a similar congressional hearing was when " Tail Gunner
Joe "
PERSON
McCarthy
PERSON
did his work .
Raymond Weber
PERSON
Parsippany ,
N.J
GPE
. I disagree with the statement by Mr.
Lantos
PERSON
that one should not draw an adverse inference against former
HUD
ORG
officials who assert their
Fifth Amendment
LAW
privilege against self - incrimination in congressional hearings .
The Fifth Amendment
LAW
states in relevant part that no person " shall be compelled , in any criminal case , to be a witness against himself . " This privilege against self - incrimination precludes the drawing of an adverse inference against a criminal defendant who chooses not to testify . Thus , in a criminal case , a prosecutor can not comment on a defendant 's failure to testify nor can the defendant be compelled to take the stand as a witness , thus forcing him to " take the
Fifth
ORDINAL
. " The privilege , however , has been limited in accordance with its plain language to protect the defendant in criminal matters only .
The Supreme Court
ORG
and some states have specifically recognized that "
the Fifth Amendment
LAW
does not preclude the inference where the privilege is claimed by a party to a civil cause . " Baxter v. Palmingiano ,
425
CARDINAL
U.S.
GPE
308 -LRB-
1976
DATE
-RRB- . Thus , in a civil case , a defendant may be called as a witness , he may be forced to testify or take the
Fifth
ORDINAL
, and his taking of the
Fifth
ORDINAL
may permit the drawing of an adverse inference against him in the civil matter . He may take the
Fifth
ORDINAL
in a civil matter only if he has a good faith and justifiable belief that his testimony may subject him to criminal prosecution .
Allowing the defendant to take the
Fifth
ORDINAL
in a civil matter is not based on a constitutional right to refuse to testify where one 's testimony harms him in the civil matter , but because the testimony in the civil matter could be unconstitutionally used against him in a subsequent criminal prosecution . Absent the risk of such prosecution , a court may order the defendant to testify . Thus , when Mr.
Pierce
PERSON
asserted the
Fifth
ORDINAL
in a noncriminal proceeding , particularly after presumably receiving extensive advice from legal counsel , one must conclude that he held a good - faith , justifiable belief that his testimony could be used against him in a subsequent criminal prosecution . The subcommittee ,
Congress
ORG
and the
American
NORP
public have every right to draw the adverse inference and to concur with Mr.
Pierce
PERSON
's own belief that his testimony could help convict him of a crime . Drawing the adverse inference in a noncriminal congressional hearing does not offend
the Fifth Amendment
LAW
shield against self - incrimination .
Clark S. Spalsbury Jr
PERSON
. Estes Park , Colo .
RJR Nabisco Inc.
ORG
is disbanding its division responsible for buying network advertising time , just a month after moving
11
CARDINAL
of the group 's
14
CARDINAL
employees to
New York
GPE
from
Atlanta
GPE
. A spokesman for the
New York
GPE
- based food and tobacco giant , taken private
earlier this year
DATE
in a
$ 25 billion
MONEY
leveraged buy - out by
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
ORG
, confirmed that it is shutting down
the RJR Nabisco Broadcast
ORG
unit , and dismissing its
14
CARDINAL
employees , in a move to save money .
The spokesman said
RJR
ORG
is discussing its network - buying plans with its
two
CARDINAL
main advertising firms ,
FCB / Leber Katz
ORG
and
McCann Erickson
ORG
. " We found with the size of our media purchases that an ad agency could do just as good a job at significantly lower cost , " said the spokesman , who declined to specify how much
RJR
ORG
spends on network television time . An executive close to the company said
RJR
ORG
is spending
about $ 140 million
MONEY
on network television time
this year
DATE
, down from
roughly $ 200 million
MONEY
last year
DATE
. The spokesman said the broadcast unit will be disbanded
Dec. 1
DATE
, and the move wo n't affect
RJR
ORG
's print , radio and spot - television buying practices . The broadcast group had been based in
New York
GPE
until
a year ago
DATE
, when
RJR
ORG
's previous management moved it to
Atlanta
GPE
, the company 's headquarters before
this summer
DATE
.
One
CARDINAL
employee with the group said
RJR
ORG
moved
11
CARDINAL
employees of the group back to
New York
GPE
in
September
DATE
because " there was supposed to be a future . " He said the company hired
three
CARDINAL
more buyers for the unit within
the past two weeks
DATE
, wooing them from jobs with advertising agencies . The
RJR
ORG
spokesman said the company moved the
11
CARDINAL
employees to
New York
GPE
last month
DATE
because the group had then been in the midst of purchasing ad time for the networks ' upcoming season . " The studies -LCB- on closing the unit -RCB- could n't be completed until now , " he said . The group 's president ,
Peter Chrisanthopoulos
PERSON
, was n't in his office
Friday
DATE
afternoon
TIME
to comment .
Canadian
NORP
steel - ingot production totaled
291,890 metric tons
QUANTITY
in
the week ended Oct. 7
DATE
, up
14.8 %
PERCENT
from
the preceding week 's
DATE
total of
254,280 tons
QUANTITY
,
Statistics Canada
ORG
, a federal agency , said . The
week
DATE
's total was up
6.2 %
PERCENT
from
274,963 tons
QUANTITY
a year earlier
DATE
. The year - to - date total was
12,006,883 tons
QUANTITY
, up
7.8 %
PERCENT
from
11,141,711 tons
QUANTITY
a year earlier
DATE
. Population Drain Ends For Midwestern States IOWA IS MAKING a comeback . So are
Indiana
GPE
,
Ohio
GPE
and
Michigan
GPE
. The population of all
four
CARDINAL
states is on the upswing , according to new
Census Bureau
ORG
estimates , following declines throughout
the early 1980s
DATE
. The gains , to be sure , are rather small .
Iowa
GPE
, for instance , saw its population grow by
11,000
CARDINAL
people , or
0.4 %
PERCENT
,
between 1987 and 1988
DATE
,
the Census Bureau
ORG
says . Still , even that modest increase is good news for a state that had n't grown at all since
1981
DATE
.
Between 1987 and 1988
DATE
,
North Dakota
GPE
was the only state in the
Midwest
LOC
to lose population , a loss of
4,000
CARDINAL
people .
Six
CARDINAL
of the
12
CARDINAL
midwestern states have been growing steadily since
1980
DATE
--
Illinois
GPE
,
Kansas
GPE
,
Minnesota
GPE
,
Missouri
GPE
,
South Dakota
GPE
and
Wisconsin
GPE
. The
Northeast
LOC
has been holding its own in the population race .
Seven
CARDINAL
of
nine
CARDINAL
states have grown
each year
DATE
since
1980
DATE
, including
New York
GPE
, which lost
4 %
PERCENT
of its population during
the 1970s
DATE
. And although
Pennsylvania
GPE
and
Massachusetts
GPE
suffered slight declines earlier in
the decade
DATE
, they are growing again . At the same time , several states in the
South
LOC
and
West
LOC
have had their own population turnaround .
Seven
CARDINAL
states that grew in
the early 1980s
DATE
are now losing population --
West Virginia
GPE
,
Mississippi
GPE
,
Louisiana
GPE
,
Oklahoma
GPE
,
Montana
GPE
,
Wyoming
GPE
and
Alaska
GPE
. Overall , though , the
South
LOC
and
West
LOC
still outpace the
Northeast
LOC
and
Midwest
LOC
, and fast - growing states like
Florida
GPE
and
California
GPE
ensure that the pattern will continue .
But the growth gap between
the Sun Belt
LOC
and other regions has clearly started narrowing . More Elderly Maintain Their Independence THANKS TO modern medicine , more couples are growing old together . And even after losing a spouse , more of the elderly are staying independent . A new
Census Bureau
ORG
study of the noninstitutionalized population shows that
64 %
PERCENT
of people aged
65 to 74
DATE
were living with a spouse in
1988
DATE
, up from
59 %
PERCENT
in
1970
DATE
. This does n't mean they 're less likely to live alone , however . That share has remained at
about 24 %
PERCENT
since
1970
DATE
. What has changed is that more of the young elderly are living with spouses rather than with other relatives , such as children . In
1988
DATE
,
10 %
PERCENT
of those aged
65 to 74
DATE
lived with relatives other than spouses , down from
15 %
PERCENT
in
1970
DATE
. As people get even older , many become widowed .
But even among those aged
75 and older
DATE
, the share living with a spouse rose slightly , to
40 %
PERCENT
in
1988
DATE
from
38 %
PERCENT
in
1970
DATE
. Like their younger counterparts , the older elderly are less likely to live with other relatives .
Only 17 %
PERCENT
of those aged
75 and
DATE
older lived with relatives other than spouses in
1988
DATE
, down from
26 %
PERCENT
in
1970
DATE
. The likelihood of living alone beyond
the age of 75
DATE
has increased to
40 %
PERCENT
from
32 %
PERCENT
. More people are remaining independent longer presumably because they are better off physically and financially . Careers Count Most For the Well - to - Do MANY AFFLUENT people place personal success and money above family . At least that 's what a survey by
Ernst & Young
ORG
and
Yankelovich
PERSON
,
Clancy
GPE
, Shulman indicates .
Two - thirds
CARDINAL
of respondents said they strongly felt the need to be successful in their jobs , while
fewer than half
CARDINAL
said they strongly felt the need to spend more time with their families . Being successful in careers and spending the money they make are top priorities for this group .
Unlike most studies of the affluent market , this survey excluded the super-rich . Average household income for the sample was $
194,000
MONEY
, and average net assets were reported
as $ 775,000
MONEY
. The goal was to learn
about one
CARDINAL
of
today
DATE
's fastest - growing income groups , the upper - middle class . Although they represent
only 2 %
PERCENT
of the population , they control
nearly one - third
CARDINAL
of discretionary income . Across the board , these consumers value quality , buy what they like rather than just what they need , and appreciate products that are distinctive . Despite their considerable incomes and assets ,
40 %
PERCENT
of the respondents in the study do n't feel financially secure , and
one - fourth
CARDINAL
do n't feel that they have made it .
Twenty percent
PERCENT
do n't even feel they are financially well off . Many of the affluent are n't comfortable with themselves , either .
About 40 %
PERCENT
do n't feel they 're more able than others . While twothirds feel some guilt about being affluent ,
only 25 %
PERCENT
give $
2,500
MONEY
or more to charity
each year
DATE
.
Thirty - five percent
PERCENT
attend religious services regularly ; at the same time ,
60 %
PERCENT
feel that in life one sometimes has to compromise one 's principles . Odds and Ends THE NUMBER of women and minorities who hold jobs in top management in the nation 's largest banks has more than doubled since
1978
DATE
.
The American Bankers Association
ORG
says that women make up
47 %
PERCENT
of officials and managers in the top
50
CARDINAL
banks , up from
33 %
PERCENT
in
1978
DATE
. The share of minorities in those positions has risen to
16 %
PERCENT
from
12 %
PERCENT
... . Per - capita personal income in the
U.S.
GPE
grew faster than inflation
last year
DATE
, according to
the Bureau of Economic Analysis
ORG
. The amount of income divvied up for each man , woman and child was $
16,489
MONEY
in
1988
DATE
, up
6.6 %
PERCENT
from $
15,472
MONEY
in
1987
DATE
. Per capita personal income ranged from $
11,116
MONEY
in
Mississippi
GPE
to $
23,059
MONEY
in
Connecticut
GPE
... . There are
13.1 million
CARDINAL
students in college
this fall
DATE
, up
2 %
PERCENT
from
1988
DATE
,
the National Center for Education Statistics
ORG
estimates .
About 54 %
PERCENT
are women , and
44 %
PERCENT
are part - time students .
When the news broke of an attempted coup in
Panama
GPE
two weeks ago
DATE
, Sen.
Christopher Dodd
PERSON
called
the State Department
ORG
for a briefing . " They said , ' follow
CNN
ORG
, ' " he told reporters . That shows how far
Ted Turner 's
PERSON
Cable News Network
ORG
has come since its birth
nine years ago
DATE
, when it was considered the laughingstock of television news . It is bigger , faster and more profitable than the news divisions of any of the
three
CARDINAL
major broadcast networks . Its niche as the " network of record " during major crises draws elite audiences around the world . But for all its success ,
CNN
ORG
has hit a plateau . Although viewership soars when big news breaks , it ebbs during periods of calm .
CNN
ORG
executives worry that the network 's punchy but repetitive news format may be getting stale and wo n't keep viewers coming back as the alternatives multiply for news and information on cable - TV . " Just the fact we 're on
24 hours
TIME
is no longer bulletin , " says
Ed Turner
PERSON
,
CNN
ORG
's executive vice president , news gathering -LRB- and no relation to
Ted Turner
PERSON
-RRB- .
" You ca n't live on that . " So
CNN
ORG
, a unit of
Atlanta
GPE
- based
Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
ORG
, is trying to reposition itself as a primary channel , or what people in the television industry call a " top of mind " network .
Tonight
TIME
, to kick off the effort ,
CNN
ORG
will premiere its
first
ORDINAL
prime - time newscast in
years
DATE
, an hourlong show at
6
CARDINAL
p.m . Eastern time to air head - to - head against the network newscasts . The show will be co-anchored by
Bernard Shaw
PERSON
and
Catherine Crier
PERSON
, a
34 - year - old
DATE
former
Texas
GPE
judge and campus beauty queen who has never held a job in television or journalism . The new show is perhaps the boldest in a number of steps the network is taking to build audience loyalty by shifting away from its current format toward more full - length " signature " programming with recognizable stars . To distinguish itself ,
CNN
ORG
is also expanding international coverage and adding a
second
ORDINAL
global - news program . It is paying higher salaries -- after
years
DATE
of scrimping -- to lure and keep experienced staffers . And it is embarking on an expensive gamble to break major stories with a large investigative - reporting team . " The next stage is to get beyond the opinion leaders who use us as a point of reference to become a point of reference at ordinary dinner tables , " says
Jon Petrovich
PERSON
, executive vice president of
Headline News
WORK_OF_ART
,
CNN
ORG
's sister network . But that wo n't be easy .
Networks , like other consumer products , develop images in peoples ' minds that are n't easy to change . It also takes money that
CNN
ORG
has been reluctant to spend to make programs and hire talent that viewers will tune in specially to see . And the cable - TV operators --
CNN
ORG
's distributors and part owners -- like things just the way they are . The repositioning bid is aimed at
CNN
ORG
's unsteady viewership -- and what may happen to it as the cable - TV news market grows more competitive . Already ,
CNN
ORG
is facing stronger competition from
Financial News Network Inc.
ORG
and
General Electric Co. 's
ORG
Consumer News and Business Channel
ORG
, both of which are likely to pursue more general news in the future . In addition , many cable - TV systems themselves are airing more local and regional news programs produced by local broadcast stations .
CNN
ORG
wants to change its viewers ' habits . Its watchers are , on the whole , a disloyal group of channel - zapping " grazers " and news junkies , who spend an average of
just 26 minutes
TIME
a day watching
CNN
ORG
, according to audience research . That 's
less than one - third
CARDINAL
the time that viewers watch the major broadcast networks . The brief attention viewers give
CNN
ORG
could put it at a disadvantage as ratings data , and advertising , become more important to cable - TV channels .
CNN
ORG
's viewer habits have been molded by its format . Its strategy in the past has been to serve as a TV wire service . It focused on building up its news bureaus around the world , so as events took place it could go live quicker and longer than other networks . It filled its
daily
DATE
schedule with newscasts called "
Daybreak
WORK_OF_ART
, " "
Daywatch
PERSON
, " "
Newsday
ORG
, " and "
Newsnight
WORK_OF_ART
, " but the shows varied little in content , personality or look . Now , the push is on for more - distinctive shows . " Our goal is to create more programs with an individual identity , " says
Paul Amos
PERSON
,
CNN
ORG
executive vice president for programming . Accordingly ,
CNN
ORG
is adding a world - affairs show in
the morning
TIME
because surveys show its global - news hour in the afternoon is among its most " differentiated " programs in viewers ' minds , says Mr.
Amos
PERSON
. And it is exploring other original programs , similar to its "
Larry King Live
WORK_OF_ART
" and "
Crossfire
PERSON
" talk shows , which executives hope will keep people tuned in . Then there 's "
The World Today
WORK_OF_ART
, " the prime - time newscast featuring Mr.
Shaw
PERSON
and Ms.
Crier
PERSON
. Until now ,
CNN
ORG
has featured its
Hollywood
GPE
gossip show during the key evening period .
But
70 %
PERCENT
of the cable - television - equipped households that watch news do so
between 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.
TIME
, the network discovered , so
CNN
ORG
wants in . Mr.
Amos
PERSON
says the
Shaw
PERSON
- Crier team will probably do
two
CARDINAL
live interviews a day , with most of the program , at least for now , appearing similar to
CNN
ORG
's other newcasts . Some in the industry are skeptical . " I find it hard to conceive of people switching over to
CNN
ORG
for what , at least in the public 's mind , is the same news , " says
Reuven Frank
PERSON
, the former
two
CARDINAL
- time president of
NBC News
ORG
and creator of the Huntley - Brinkley Report . The
evening
TIME
news is also slated as
CNN
ORG
's stage for its big push into investigative journalism . In
August
DATE
, the network hired award - winning producer
Pamela Hill
PERSON
, the former head of news specials at
ABC
ORG
. She 's assembling a staff of
about 35
CARDINAL
investigative reporters who will produce
weekly
DATE
, in - depth segments , with an eye toward breaking big stories .
CNN
ORG
executives hope the headlines created by such scoops will generate excitement for its " branded " programs , in the way "
60 Minutes
TIME
" did so well for
CBS
ORG
. That 's such a departure from the past that many in the industry are skeptical
CNN
ORG
will follow through with its investigative commitment , especially after it sees the cost of producing in - depth pieces . " They 've never shown any inclination to spend money on production , " says
Michael Mosettig
PERSON
, a senior producer with
MacNeil - Lehrer NewsHour
ORG
, who notes that
CNN
ORG
is indispensable to his job .
The network 's salaries have always ranged far below industry standards , resulting in a less - experienced work force .
CNN
ORG
recently gave most employees raises of
as much as 15 %
PERCENT
, but they 're still drastically underpaid compared with the networks . Says Mr.
Mosettig
PERSON
: "
CNN
ORG
is my wire service ; they 're on top of everything . But to improve , they 've really got to make the investment in people . " In any case , cable - TV - system operators have reason to fear any tinkering with
CNN
ORG
's format . They market cable - TV on the very grazing opportunities
CNN
ORG
seeks to discourage . " We would obviously be upset if those kinds of services evolved into more general - interest , long - format programming , " says
Robert Stengel
PERSON
, senior vice president , programming , of
Continental Cablevision Inc.
ORG
, which holds a
2 %
PERCENT
stake in
Turner Broadcasting
ORG
. The following were among
Friday
DATE
's offerings and pricings in the
U.S.
GPE
and
non-U.S.
GPE
capital markets , with terms and syndicate manager , as compiled by
Dow Jones Capital Markets Report
ORG
:
Dow Chemical Co.
ORG
--
$ 150 million
MONEY
of
8.55 %
PERCENT
senior notes due
Oct. 15 , 2009
DATE
, priced at par . The issue , which is puttable back to the company at par on
Oct. 15 , 1999
DATE
, was priced at a spread of
50
CARDINAL
basis points above the
Treasury
ORG
's
10 - year
DATE
note . Rated single - A - 1 by
Moody 's Investors Service Inc.
ORG
and single - A by
Standard & Poor 's Corp.
ORG
, the non-callable issue will be sold through underwriters led by
Merrill Lynch Capital Markets
ORG
.
Centel Capital Corp.
ORG
--
$ 150 million
MONEY
of
9 %
PERCENT
debentures due
Oct. 15 , 2019
DATE
, priced at
99.943
CARDINAL
to yield
9.008 %
PERCENT
. The non-callable issue , which can be put back to the company in
1999
DATE
, was priced at
99
CARDINAL
basis points above the
Treasury
ORG
's
10 - year
DATE
note .
Rated Baa - 1
PERSON
by
Moody 's
ORG
and triple - B - plus by
S&P
ORG
, the issue will be sold through underwriters led by
Morgan Stanley & Co
ORG
.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
ORG
--
$ 500 million
MONEY
of Remic mortgage securities offered in
13
CARDINAL
classes by
Prudential - Bache Securities Inc
ORG
. The offering , Series
102
CARDINAL
, backed by
Freddie Mac
ORG
8 1/2 %
PERCENT
securities with a weighted average remaining term to maturity of
28.4 years
DATE
, was priced before the market 's
afternoon
TIME
surge .
Among classes for which details were available , yields ranged from
8.78 %
PERCENT
, or
75
CARDINAL
basis points over
two - year
DATE
Treasury
ORG
securities , to
10.05 %
PERCENT
, or
200
CARDINAL
basis points over
10 - year
DATE
Treasurys .
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
ORG
--
$ 300 million
MONEY
of Remic mortgage securities offered by
Citicorp Securities Markets Inc
ORG
. The offering , Series
101
CARDINAL
, is backed by
Freddie Mac
ORG
9 1/2 %
PERCENT
securities . Pricing details were n't immediately available .
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
ORG
--
$ 200 million
MONEY
of stripped mortgage securities underwritten by
BT Securities Corp
ORG
. The agency 's
first
ORDINAL
strips issue , collateralized by
Freddie Mac
ORG
8 %
PERCENT
securities pooled into a single security called a
Giant
ORG
, will be divided into interest - only and principal - only securities . The collateral is being sold by a thrift institution . The principal - only securities will be repackaged by
BT Securities
ORG
into a
Freddie Mac
ORG
Remic , Series
103
CARDINAL
, that will have
six
CARDINAL
classes .
The interest - only securities will be sold separately by
BT Securities
ORG
. The principal - only securities pay the principal from the underlying
Freddie Mac
ORG
8 %
PERCENT
securities , while the interest - only securities pay only interest .
Freddie Mac
ORG
said the principal - only securities were priced at
58 1/4
CARDINAL
to yield
8.45 %
PERCENT
, assuming an average life of
eight years
DATE
and a prepayment of
160 %
PERCENT
of the
PSA
ORG
model . The interest - only securities were priced at
35 1/2
CARDINAL
to yield
10.72 %
PERCENT
. There were no major
Eurobond
PERSON
or foreign bond offerings in
Europe
LOC
Friday
DATE
.
Britain
GPE
's retail price index rose
0.7 %
PERCENT
in
September
DATE
from
August
DATE
and was up
7.6 %
PERCENT
for
the year
DATE
,
the Central Statistical Office
ORG
said .
MedChem Products Inc.
ORG
said a
U.S.
GPE
District Court
ORG
in
Boston
GPE
ruled that a challenge by
MedChem
ORG
to the validity of a
U.S.
GPE
patent held by
Pharmacia Inc.
ORG
was " without merit . "
Pharmacia
PERSON
, based in
Upsala
GPE
,
Sweden
GPE
, had charged in a lawsuit against
MedChem
ORG
that
MedChem
ORG
's AMVISC product line infringes on the
Pharmacia
NORP
patent .
The patent is related to hyaluronic acid , a rooster - comb extract used in eye surgery . In its lawsuit ,
Pharmacia
PERSON
is seeking unspecified damages and a preliminary injunction to block
MedChem
ORG
from selling the AMVISC products . A
MedChem
ORG
spokesman said the products contribute
about a third
CARDINAL
of
MedChem
ORG
's sales and
10 % to 20 %
PERCENT
of its earnings . In
the year ended Aug. 31 , 1988
DATE
,
MedChem
ORG
earned
$ 2.9 million
MONEY
, or
72 cents
MONEY
a share , on sales of
$ 17.4 million
MONEY
.
MedChem
ORG
said the court 's ruling was issued as part of a "
first
ORDINAL
- phase trial " in the patent - infringement proceedings and concerns
only one
CARDINAL
of its defenses in the case . It said it is considering " all of its options in light of the decision , including a possible appeal . " The medical - products company added that it plans to " assert its other defenses " against
Pharmacia
PERSON
's lawsuit , including the claim that it has n't infringed on
Pharmacia
PERSON
's patent .
MedChem
ORG
said that the court scheduled a conference for
next Monday
DATE
-- to set a date for proceedings on
Pharmacia
PERSON
's motion for a preliminary injunction . Concerning your
Sept. 21
DATE
page -
one
CARDINAL
article on Prince
Charles
PERSON
and the leeches : It 's
a few hundred years
DATE
since
England
GPE
has been a kingdom .
It 's now
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
GPE
and
Northern Ireland
GPE
, comprising
Wales
GPE
,
Northern Ireland
GPE
,
Scotland
GPE
, and ... oh yes ,
England
GPE
, too . Just thought you 'd like to know .
George Morton Call
PERSON
it the " we 're too broke to fight " defense . Lawyers for
dozens
CARDINAL
of insolvent savings and loan associations are trying a new tack in their efforts to defuse suits filed by borrowers , developers and creditors . The thrifts ' lawyers claim that the suits , numbering
700
CARDINAL
to
1,000
CARDINAL
in
Texas
GPE
alone , should be dismissed as moot because neither the S&Ls nor the extinct
Federal Savings and
ORG
Loan Insurance Corp.
ORG
has the money to pay judgments . Though the argument may have a common - sense ring to it , even the S&L lawyers concede there 's little precedent to back their position . Still ,
one
CARDINAL
federal appeals court has signaled it 's willing to entertain the notion , and the lawyers have renewed their arguments in
Texas
GPE
and
eight
CARDINAL
other states where the defense is permitted under state law . The dismissal of the pending suits could go a long way toward clearing court dockets in
Texas
GPE
and reducing the
FSLIC
ORG
's massive legal bills , which topped
$ 73 million
MONEY
last year
DATE
.
The S&L lawyers were encouraged
last month
DATE
by an appellate - court ruling in
two
CARDINAL
cases brought against defunct
Sunbelt Savings & Loan Association
ORG
of
Dallas
GPE
by the developers of
the Valley Ranch
ORG
, best known as the training center for the
Dallas
GPE
Cowboys football team . Sunbelt foreclosed on the ranch . Sunbelt and the
FSLIC
ORG
argued to
the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
ORG
" that there will never be any assets with which to satisfy a judgment against
Sunbelt Savings
ORG
nor any means to collect from any other party , including
FSLIC
ORG
. " " If true , " the court wrote , " this contention would justify dismissal of these actions on prudential grounds . " But the court said it lacked enough financial information about
Sunbelt
PRODUCT
and the
FSLIC
ORG
and sent the cases back to federal district court in
Dallas
GPE
.
Charles Haworth
PERSON
, a lawyer for
Sunbelt
PRODUCT
, says he plans to file a brief
this week
DATE
urging the district judge to dismiss the suits , because
Sunbelt
PERSON
's liabilities exceeded its assets by
about $ 2 billion
MONEY
when federal regulators closed it in
August 1988
DATE
. " This institution is just brain dead , " says Mr.
Haworth
PERSON
, a partner in the
Dallas
GPE
office of
Andrews & Kurth
ORG
, a
Houston
GPE
law firm . But a lawyer for
Triland Investment Group
ORG
, the developer of
Valley Ranch
ORG
, dismisses such arguments as a " defense du jour . " Attorney
Richard Jackson
PERSON
of
Dallas
GPE
says a judgment for
Triland
GPE
could be satisfied in ways other than a monetary award , including the reversal of
Sunbelt
PRODUCT
's foreclosure on
Valley Ranch
ORG
. " We 're asking the court for a number of things he can grant in addition to the thrill of victory , " he says .
" We 'd take the
Valley Ranch
ORG
free and clear as a booby prize .
Interprovincial Pipe Line Co.
ORG
said it will delay a proposed
two
CARDINAL
- step ,
830 million
CARDINAL
Canadian
NORP
- dollar -LRB-
US$ 705.6 million
MONEY
-RRB-
PERSON
expansion of its system because
Canada
GPE
's output of crude oil is shrinking . Interprovincial ,
Canada
GPE
's biggest oil pipeline operator and a major transporter of crude to the
U.S.
GPE
, said revised industry forecasts indicate that
Canadian
NORP
oil output will total
about 1.64 million barrels
QUANTITY
a day by
1991
DATE
,
8 %
PERCENT
lower than a previous estimate .
Canadian
NORP
crude production averaged
about 1.69 million barrels
QUANTITY
a day during 1989 's first half ,
about 1 %
PERCENT
below the
1988
DATE
level . " The capability of existing fields to deliver oil is dropping , " and oil exploration activity is also down dramatically , as many producers shift their emphasis to natural gas , said
Ronald Watkins
PERSON
, vice president for government and industry relations with
Interprovincial
ORG
's parent ,
Interhome Energy Inc
ORG
. Mr.
Watkins
PERSON
said volume on
Interprovincial
ORG
's system is down
about 2 %
PERCENT
since
January
DATE
and is expected to fall further , making expansion unnecessary until perhaps
the mid-1990s
DATE
. " There has been a swing of the pendulum back to the gas side , " he said . Many of
Canada
GPE
's oil and gas producers say the outlook for natural gas is better than it is for oil , and have shifted their exploration and development budgets accordingly . The number of active drilling rigs in
Canada
GPE
is down
30 %
PERCENT
from
a year ago
DATE
, and the number of completed oil wells is " down more than that , due to the increasing focus on gas exploration , " said
Robert Feick
PERSON
, manager of crude oil with
Calgary
GPE
's
Independent Petroleum Association of Canada
ORG
, an industry group .
Mr.
Watkins
PERSON
said the main reason for the production decline is shrinking output of light crude from mature , conventional fields in western
Canada
GPE
. Interprovincial transports
about 75 %
PERCENT
of all crude produced in western
Canada
GPE
, and
almost 60 %
PERCENT
of
Interprovincial
ORG
's total volume consists of light crude . Nearly all of the crude oil that
Canada
GPE
exports to the
U.S.
GPE
is transported on
Interprovincial
ORG
's system , whose main line runs from
Edmonton
ORG
to major
U.S.
GPE
and
Canadian
NORP
cities in the
Great Lakes
GPE
region , including
Chicago
GPE
,
Buffalo
GPE
,
Toronto
GPE
and
Montreal
GPE
.
Canada
GPE
's current oil exports to the
U.S.
GPE
total
about 600,000 barrels
QUANTITY
a day , or
about 9.1 %
PERCENT
of net
U.S.
GPE
crude imports , said
John Lichtblau
PERSON
, president of the
New York
GPE
- based
Petroleum Industry Research Foundation
ORG
. That ranks
Canada
GPE
as the
fourth
ORDINAL
- largest source of imported crude , behind
Saudi Arabia
GPE
,
Nigeria
GPE
and
Mexico
GPE
. Mr.
Lichtblau
PERSON
said
Canada
GPE
's declining crude output , combined with the fast - shrinking output of
U.S.
GPE
crude , will help intensify
U.S.
GPE
reliance on oil from overseas , particularly
the Middle East
LOC
. " It 's very much a growing concern . But when something is inevitable , you learn to live with it , " he said . Mr.
Lichtblau
PERSON
stressed that the delay of
Interprovincial
ORG
's proposed expansion wo n't by itself increase
U.S.
GPE
dependence on offshore crude , however , since
Canadian
NORP
imports are limited in any case by
Canada
GPE
's falling output . Under terms of its proposed
two
CARDINAL
- step expansion , which would have required regulatory approval ,
Interprovincial
ORG
intended to add
200,000 barrels
QUANTITY
a day of additional capacity to its system , beginning with a modest expansion by
1991
DATE
.
The system currently has a capacity of
1.55 million barrels
QUANTITY
a day .
Friday , October 13 , 1989
DATE
The key
U.S.
GPE
and foreign
annual
DATE
interest rates below are a guide to general levels but do n't always represent actual transactions . PRIME RATE :
10 1/2 %
PERCENT
. The base rate on corporate loans at large
U.S.
GPE
money center commercial banks . FEDERAL FUNDS :
8 13/16 %
PERCENT
high ,
8 1/2 %
PERCENT
low ,
8 5/8 %
PERCENT
near closing bid ,
8 3/4 %
PERCENT
offered . Reserves traded among commercial banks for
overnight
TIME
use in amounts of
$ 1 million
MONEY
or more .
Source :
Fulton Prebon -LRB- U.S.A
ORG
.
-RRB- Inc
PERSON
. DISCOUNT RATE :
7 %
PERCENT
. The charge on loans to depository institutions by
the New York Federal Reserve Bank
ORG
. CALL MONEY :
9 3/4 % to 10 %
PERCENT
. The charge on loans to brokers on stock exchange collateral . COMMERCIAL PAPER placed directly by
General Motors Acceptance Corp.
ORG
:
8.60 %
PERCENT
30 to 44 days
DATE
;
8.55 %
PERCENT
45 to 59 days
DATE
;
8.375 %
PERCENT
60 to 79 days
DATE
;
8.50 %
PERCENT
80 to 89 days
DATE
;
8.25 %
PERCENT
90 to 119 days
DATE
;
8.125 %
PERCENT
120 to 149 days
DATE
;
8 %
PERCENT
150 to 179 days
DATE
;
7.625 %
PERCENT
180 to 270 days
DATE
. COMMERCIAL PAPER :
High - grade unsecured notes sold through dealers by major corporations in multiples of $
1,000
MONEY
:
8.65 %
PERCENT
30 days
DATE
;
8.55 %
PERCENT
60 days
DATE
;
8.55 %
PERCENT
90 days
DATE
. CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT :
8.15 %
PERCENT
one month
DATE
;
8.15 %
PERCENT
two months
DATE
;
8.13 %
PERCENT
three months
DATE
;
8.11 %
PERCENT
six months
DATE
;
8.08 %
PERCENT
one year
DATE
. Average of top rates paid by major
New York
GPE
banks on primary new issues of negotiable C.D.s , usually on amounts of
$ 1 million
MONEY
and more . The minimum unit is $
100,000
MONEY
. Typical rates in the secondary market :
8.65 %
PERCENT
one month
DATE
;
8.65 %
PERCENT
three months
DATE
;
8.55 %
PERCENT
six months
DATE
. BANKERS ACCEPTANCES :
8.52 %
PERCENT
30 days
DATE
;
8.37 %
PERCENT
60 days
DATE
;
8.15 %
PERCENT
90 days
DATE
;
7.98 %
PERCENT
120 days
DATE
;
7.92 %
PERCENT
150 days
DATE
;
7.80 %
PERCENT
180 days
DATE
.
Negotiable , bank - backed business credit instruments typically financing an import order .
LONDON
GPE
LATE EURODOLLARS :
8 13/16 % to 8 11/16 %
PERCENT
one month
DATE
;
8 13/16 % to 8 11/16 %
PERCENT
two months
DATE
;
8 13/16 % to 8 11/16 %
PERCENT
three months
DATE
;
8 3/4 % to 8 5/8 %
PERCENT
four months
DATE
;
8 11/16 % to 8 9/16 %
PERCENT
five months
DATE
;
8 5/8 % to 8 1/2 %
PERCENT
six months
DATE
.
LONDON
GPE
INTERBANK OFFERED RATES -LRB- LIBOR -RRB- :
8 3/4 %
PERCENT
one month
DATE
;
8 3/4 %
PERCENT
three months
DATE
;
8 9/16 %
PERCENT
six months
DATE
;
8 9/16 %
PERCENT
one year
DATE
. The average of interbank offered rates for dollar deposits in the
London
GPE
market based on quotations at
five
CARDINAL
major banks . FOREIGN PRIME RATES :
Canada
GPE
13.50 %
PERCENT
;
Germany
GPE
8.50 %
PERCENT
;
Japan
GPE
4.875 %
PERCENT
;
Switzerland
GPE
8.50 %
PERCENT
;
Britain
GPE
15 %
PERCENT
. These rate indications are n't directly comparable ; lending practices vary widely by location .
TREASURY
ORG
BILLS :
Results of the
Tuesday , October 10 , 1989
DATE
, auction of short - term
U.S.
GPE
government bills , sold at a discount from face value in units of $
10,000
MONEY
to
$ 1 million
MONEY
:
7.63 %
PERCENT
13 weeks
DATE
;
7.60 %
PERCENT
26 weeks
DATE
.
FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP .
ORG
-LRB-
Freddie Mac
ORG
-RRB- : Posted yields on
30 - year
DATE
mortgage commitments for delivery within
30 days
DATE
.
9.91 %
PERCENT
, standard conventional fixedrate mortgages ;
7.875 %
PERCENT
,
2 %
PERCENT
rate capped
one - year
DATE
adjustable rate mortgages . Source :
Telerate Systems Inc
ORG
.
FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION
ORG
-LRB-
Fannie Mae
ORG
-RRB- : Posted yields on
30 year
DATE
mortgage commitments for delivery within
30 days -LRB-
DATE
priced at par -RRB-
9.86 %
PERCENT
, standard conventional fixed - rate mortgages ;
8.85 %
PERCENT
,
6/2
CARDINAL
rate capped
one - year
DATE
adjustable rate mortgages . Source :
Telerate Systems Inc
ORG
.
MERRILL LYNCH
ORG
READY ASSETS TRUST :
8.33 %
PERCENT
. Annualized average rate of return after expenses for
the past 30 days
DATE
; not a forecast of future returns . The government sold the deposits of
four
CARDINAL
savings - and - loan institutions , in its
first
ORDINAL
wave of sales of big , sick thrifts , but low bids prevented the sale of a
fifth
ORDINAL
. The
four
CARDINAL
S&Ls were sold to large banks , as was the case with most of the
28
CARDINAL
previous transactions initiated by
the Resolution Trust Corp.
ORG
since it was created in the S&L bailout legislation
two months ago
DATE
.
Two
CARDINAL
of the
four
CARDINAL
big thrifts were sold to
NCNB Corp.
ORG
,
Charlotte
GPE
,
N.C.
GPE
, which has aggressively expanded its markets , particularly in
Texas
GPE
and
Florida
GPE
. A
Canadian
NORP
bank bought another thrift , in the
first
ORDINAL
RTC
ORG
transaction with a foreign bank . Under these deals , the
RTC
ORG
sells just the deposits and the healthy assets . These " clean - bank " transactions leave the bulk of bad assets , mostly real estate , with the government , to be sold later .
In these
four
CARDINAL
, for instance , the
RTC
ORG
is stuck with
$ 4.51 billion
MONEY
in bad assets . Acquirers paid premiums ranging from
1.5 %
PERCENT
to
3.7 %
PERCENT
for the deposits and branch systems , roughly in line with what analysts were expecting . The buyers will also be locked into deposit rates for
just two weeks
DATE
, as has been the case with previous deals . After that , the buyers may repudiate the rates paid by the former thrifts . But it 's uncertain whether these institutions will take those steps . NCNB , for example , has been one of the highest rate payers in the
Texas
GPE
market , and in
Florida
GPE
, rates are especially sensitive in retirement communities . The
RTC
ORG
had previously targeted
five
CARDINAL
thrifts for quick sales in order to spend cash by certain budgetary deadlines , but the delays illustrate the tough chore facing the agency . " These thrifts are beached whales , " said
Bert Ely
PERSON
, an industry consultant based in
Alexandria
GPE
,
Va
GPE
. For example , the delay in selling
People 's Heritage Savings
ORG
,
Salina
GPE
,
Kan.
GPE
, with
$ 1.7 billion
MONEY
in assets , has forced the
RTC
ORG
to consider selling off the thrift branch - by - branch , instead of as a whole institution .
NCNB
ORG
continued its foray into the
Florida
GPE
and
Texas
GPE
markets .
NCNB
ORG
will acquire
University Federal Savings Association
ORG
,
Houston
GPE
, which had assets of
$ 2.8 billion
MONEY
.
NCNB Texas National Bank
ORG
will pay the
RTC
ORG
a premium of
$ 129 million
MONEY
for
$ 3.5 billion
MONEY
in deposits . As a measure of the depths to which the
Texas
GPE
real estate market has sunk , the
RTC
ORG
will pay
$ 3.8 billion
MONEY
to
NCNB
ORG
to take
$ 750 million
MONEY
of bad assets .
NCNB
ORG
also acquired
Freedom Savings & Loan Association
ORG
,
Tampa
GPE
,
Fla.
GPE
, which had total assets of
$ 900 million
MONEY
.
NCNB
ORG
will pay the
RTC
ORG
a premium of
$ 40.4 million
MONEY
for
$ 1.1 billion
MONEY
in deposits .
NCNB
ORG
will also acquire
$ 266 million
MONEY
of
Freedom
ORG
's assets from the
RTC
ORG
, which will require
$ 875 million
MONEY
in assistance .
Meridian Bancorp Inc.
ORG
,
Reading
GPE
,
Pa.
GPE
, will acquire
Hill Financial Savings Association
ORG
,
Red Hill
GPE
,
Pa.
GPE
, which had
$ 2.3 billion
MONEY
in assets . Meridian will pay a premium of
$ 30.5 million
MONEY
to assume
$ 2 billion
MONEY
in deposits . It will also purchase
$ 845 million
MONEY
of the thrift 's assets , with
$ 1.9 billion
MONEY
in
RTC
ORG
assistance . In the
first
ORDINAL
RTC
ORG
transaction with a foreign buyer ,
Royal Trustco Ltd.
ORG
,
Toronto
GPE
, will acquire
Pacific Savings Bank
ORG
,
Costa Mesa
GPE
,
Calif.
GPE
, which had
$ 949 million
MONEY
in assets .
Royal Trustco
ORG
will pay the
RTC
ORG
$ 25 million
MONEY
to assume
$ 989 million
MONEY
in deposits . It will also purchase
$ 473 million
MONEY
in assets , and receive
$ 550 million
MONEY
in assistance from the
RTC
ORG
. The
Senate
ORG
's decision to approve a bare - bones deficit - reduction bill without a capital - gains tax cut still leaves open the possibility of enacting a gains tax reduction
this year
DATE
.
Late Friday night
TIME
, the
Senate
ORG
voted
87
CARDINAL
- 7 to approve
an estimated $ 13.5 billion
MONEY
measure that had been stripped of
hundreds
CARDINAL
of provisions that would have widened , rather than narrowed , the federal budget deficit . Lawmakers drastically streamlined the bill to blunt criticism that it was bloated with special - interest tax breaks and spending increases . " We 're putting a deficit - reduction bill back in the category of being a deficit - reduction bill , " said
Senate Budget Committee
ORG
Chairman
James Sasser -LRB- D.
PERSON
,
Tenn
GPE
.
-RRB-
PERSON
. But
Senate
ORG
supporters of the trimmer legislation said that other bills would soon be moving through
Congress
ORG
that could carry some of the measures that had been cast aside , including a capital - gains tax cut . In addition , the companion deficit - reduction bill already passed by the
House
ORG
includes a capital - gains provision .
House
ORG
- Senate negotiations are likely to begin at
midweek
DATE
and last for a while .
" No one can predict exactly what will happen on the
House
ORG
side , " said
Senate
ORG
Minority Leader
Robert Dole -LRB-
PERSON
R.
NORP
,
Kan
PERSON
.
-RRB-
PERSON
. But , he added , " I believe
Republicans
NORP
and
Democrats
NORP
will work together to get capital - gains reform
this year
DATE
. "
White House
ORG
Budget Director
Richard Darman
PERSON
told reporters
yesterday
DATE
that the administration would n't push to keep the capital - gains cut in the final version of the bill . " We do n't need this as a way to get capital gains , " he said .
House Budget Committee
ORG
Chairman
Leon Panetta
PERSON
-LRB-
D.
NORP
,
Calif
GPE
.
-RRB-
PERSON
said in an interview , " If that 's the signal that comes from
the White House
ORG
, that will help a great deal . " The
Senate
ORG
's decision was a setback for President
Bush
PERSON
and will make approval of a capital - gains tax cut less certain
this year
DATE
. Opponents of the cut are playing
hardball
WORK_OF_ART
.
Senate
ORG
Majority Leader
George Mitchell
PERSON
-LRB-
D.
NORP
,
Maine
GPE
-RRB- said he was " confident " that any
House
ORG
- Senate agreement on the deficit - reduction legislation would n't include a capital - gains tax cut . And a senior aide to
the House Ways and Means Committee
ORG
, where tax legislation originates , said there are n't any " plans to produce another tax bill that could carry a gains tax cut
this year
DATE
. "
One
CARDINAL
obvious place to attach a capital - gains tax cut , and perhaps other popular items stripped from the deficit - reduction bill , is the legislation to raise the federal borrowing limit .
Such legislation must be enacted by
the end of the month
DATE
. The
Senate
ORG
bill was pared back in an attempt to speed deficit - reduction through
Congress
ORG
. Because the legislation has n't been completed , President
Bush
PERSON
has until
midnight tonight
TIME
to enact across - the - board spending cuts mandated by the
Gramm - Rudman
LAW
deficit - reduction law . Senators hope that the need to avoid those cuts will pressure the
House
ORG
to agree to the streamlined bill . The
House
ORG
appears reluctant to join the senators . A key is whether
House
ORG
Republicans
NORP
are willing to acquiesce to their
Senate
ORG
colleagues ' decision to drop many pet provisions . " Although I am encouraged by the
Senate
ORG
action , " said Chairman
Dan Rostenkowski -LRB- D.
PERSON
,
Ill
PERSON
.
-RRB-
PERSON
of
the House Ways and Means Committee
ORG
, " it is uncertain whether a clean bill can be achieved in the upcoming conference with the
Senate
ORG
. " Another big question hovering over the debate is what President
Bush
PERSON
thinks . He has been resisting a stripped - down bill without a guaranteed vote on his capital - gains tax cut . But
Republican
NORP
senators saw no way to overcome a procedural hurdle and garner the
60
CARDINAL
votes needed to win the capital - gains issue on the floor , so they went ahead with the streamlined bill .
The
Senate
ORG
bill was stripped of many popular , though revenue - losing , provisions , a number of which are included in the
House
ORG
- passed bill . These include a child - care initiative and extensions of soon - to - expire tax breaks for low - income housing and research - and - development expenditures . Also missing from the
Senate
ORG
bill is the
House
ORG
's repeal of a law , called
Section 89
LAW
, that compels companies to give rank - and - file workers comparable health benefits to top paid executives .
One
CARDINAL
high - profile provision that was originally in the
Senate
ORG
bill but was cut out because it lost money was the proposal by Chairman
Lloyd Bentsen -LRB-
PERSON
D.
NORP
,
Texas
GPE
-RRB- of
the Senate Finance Committee
ORG
to expand the deduction for individual retirement accounts . Mr.
Bentsen
PERSON
said he hopes the
Senate
ORG
will consider that measure soon . To the delight of some doctors , the bill dropped a plan passed by
the Finance Committee
ORG
that would have overhauled the entire physician - reimbursement system under
Medicare
ORG
. To the detriment of many low - income people , efforts to boost
Medicaid
ORG
funding , especially in rural areas , also were stricken . Asked why senators were giving up so much ,
New Mexico
GPE
Sen.
Pete Domenici
PERSON
, the ranking
Republican
NORP
on
the Senate Budget Committee
ORG
, said , " We 're looking like idiots . Things had just gone too far . " Sen.
Dole
PERSON
said that the move required sacrifice by every senator .
It worked , others said , because there were no exceptions : all revenue - losing provisions were stricken . The
Senate
ORG
also dropped a plan by its
Finance Committee
ORG
that would have increased the income threshold beyond which senior citizens have their
Social Security
ORG
benefits reduced . In addition , the bill dropped a plan to make permanent a
3 %
PERCENT
excise tax on long - distance telephone calls . It no longer includes a plan that would have repealed what remains of the completed - contract method of accounting , which is used by military contractors to reduce their tax burden . It also drops a provision that would have permitted corporations to use excess pension funds to pay health benefits for current retirees . Also stricken was a fivefold increase in the maximum
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
ORG
penalties , which would have raised
$ 65 million
MONEY
in
fiscal 1990
DATE
. A provision that would have made
the Social Security Administration
ORG
an independent agency was excised . The approval of the
Senate
ORG
bill was especially sweet for Sen.
Mitchell
PERSON
, who had proposed the streamlining . Mr.
Mitchell
PERSON
's relations with
Budget
ORG
Director
Darman
PERSON
, who pushed for a capital - gains cut to be added to the measure , have been strained since Mr.
Darman
PERSON
chose to bypass the
Maine
GPE
Democrat
NORP
and deal with other lawmakers
earlier this year
DATE
during a dispute over drug funding in
the fiscal 1989
DATE
supplemental spending bill . The deficit reduction bill contains
$ 5.3 billion
MONEY
in tax increases in
fiscal 1990
DATE
, and
$ 26 billion
MONEY
over
five years
DATE
.
The revenue - raising provisions , which affect mostly corporations , would : -- Prevent companies that have made leveraged buy - outs from getting federal tax refunds resulting from losses caused by interest payments on debt issued to finance the buy - outs , effective
Aug. 2 , 1989
DATE
. -- Require mutual funds to include in their taxable income dividends paid to them on the date that the dividends are declared rather than received , effective
the day
DATE
after the tax bill is enacted . -- Close a loophole regarding employee stock ownership plans , effective
June 6 , 1989
DATE
, that has been exploited by investment bankers in corporate takeovers . The measure repeals a
50 %
PERCENT
exclusion given to banks on the interest from loans used to acquire securities for an ESOP , if the
ESOP
ORG
owns
less than 30 %
PERCENT
of the employer 's stock . -- Curb junk bonds by ending tax benefits for certain securities , such as
zero
CARDINAL
- coupon bonds , that postpone cash interest payments . -- Raise
$ 851 million
MONEY
by suspending for
one year
DATE
an automatic reduction in airport and airway taxes . -- Speed up the collection of the payroll tax from large companies , effective
August 1990
DATE
. -- Impose a tax on ozone - depleting chemicals , such as those used in air conditioners and in
Styrofoam
PERSON
, beginning at $
1.10
MONEY
a pound starting
next year
DATE
. -- Withhold income taxes from the paychecks of certain farm workers currently exempt from withholding .
-- Change the collection of gasoline excise taxes to
weekly
DATE
from semimonthly , effective
next year
DATE
. -- Restrict the ability of real estate owners to escape taxes by swapping one piece of property for another instead of selling it for cash . -- Increase to $
6
MONEY
a person from $
3
MONEY
the international air - passenger departure tax , and impose a $
3
MONEY
- a - person tax on international departures by commercial ships . The measure also includes spending cuts and increases in federal fees . Among its provisions : -- Reduction of
Medicare
ORG
spending in
fiscal 1990
DATE
by
some $ 2.8 billion
MONEY
, in part by curbing increases in reimbursements to physicians . The plan would impose a brief freeze on physician fees
next year
DATE
. -- Removal of
the U.S. Postal Service 's
ORG
operating budget from the federal budget , reducing the deficit by
$ 1.77 billion
MONEY
. A similar provision is in the
House
ORG
version . -- Authority for
the Federal Aviation Administration
ORG
to raise
$ 239 million
MONEY
by charging fees for commercial airline - landing rights at
New York 's
GPE
LaGuardia
PERSON
and
John F. Kennedy
PERSON
International Airports ,
O'Hare International Airport
ORG
in
Chicago
GPE
and
National Airport
FAC
in
Washington
GPE
.
-- Increases in
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
ORG
fees totaling
$ 54 million
MONEY
. -- Direction to
the U.S. Coast Guard
ORG
to collect
$ 50 million
MONEY
from users of
Coast Guard
ORG
services . -- Raising
an additional $ 43 million
MONEY
by increasing existing
Federal Communications Commission
ORG
fees and penalties and establishing new fees for amateur radio operators , ship stations and mobile radio facilities .
John E. Yang
PERSON
contributed to this article .
Moody 's Investors Service
ORG
said it reduced its rating on
$ 165 million
MONEY
of subordinated debt of this
Beverly Hills
GPE
,
Calif.
GPE
, thrift , citing turmoil in the market for low - grade , high - yield securities . The agency said it reduced its rating on the thrift 's subordinated debt to
B - 2
PRODUCT
from
Ba - 2
ORG
and will keep the debt under review for possible further downgrade .
Columbia Savings
ORG
is a major holder of so - called junk bonds . New federal legislation requires that all thrifts divest themselves of such speculative securities over
a period of years
DATE
.
Columbia Savings
ORG
officials were n't available for comment on the downgrade .
FRANKLIN SAVINGS ASSOCIATION -LRB-
ORG
Ottawa
GPE
,
Kan.
GPE
-RRB-
PERSON
--
Moody 's Investors Service Inc.
ORG
said it downgraded its rating to
B - 2
PRODUCT
from
Ba - 3
DATE
on
less than $ 20 million
MONEY
of this thrift 's senior subordinated notes . The rating concern said
Franklin
PERSON
's " troubled diversification record in the securities business " was
one
CARDINAL
reason for the downgrade , citing the troubles at its
L.F. Rothschild
ORG
subsidiary and the possible sale of other subsidiaries . " They perhaps had concern that we were getting out of all these , " said
Franklin
ORG
President
Duane H. Hall
PERSON
. " I think it was a little premature on their part . Measuring cups may soon be replaced by tablespoons in the laundry room .
Procter & Gamble Co.
ORG
plans to begin testing
next month
DATE
a superconcentrated detergent that will require only a few spoonfuls per washload . The move stems from lessons learned in
Japan
GPE
where local competitors have had phenomenal success with concentrated soapsuds . It also marks
P&G
ORG
's growing concern that its
Japanese
NORP
rivals , such as
Kao Corp.
ORG
, may bring their superconcentrates to the
U.S.
GPE
.
The
Cincinnati
GPE
consumer - products giant got clobbered
two years ago
DATE
in
Japan
GPE
when
Kao
ORG
introduced a powerful detergent , called
Attack
PRODUCT
, which quickly won a
30 %
PERCENT
stake in the
Japanese
NORP
markets . " They do n't want to get caught again , " says
one
CARDINAL
industry watcher . Retailers in
Phoenix
GPE
,
Ariz.
GPE
, say
P&G
ORG
's new powdered detergent -- to be called
Cheer with Color Guard
ORG
-- will be on shelves in that market by
early November
DATE
. A
P&G
ORG
spokeswoman confirmed that shipments to
Phoenix
GPE
started
late last month
DATE
. She said the company will study results from this market before expanding to others . Superconcentrates are n't entirely new for
P&G
ORG
. The company introduced a superconcentrated
Lemon Cheer
ORG
in
Japan
GPE
after watching the success of
Attack
LOC
. When Attack hit the shelves in
1987
DATE
,
P&G
ORG
's share of the
Japanese
NORP
market fell to
about 8 %
PERCENT
from
more than 20 %
PERCENT
. With the help of
Lemon Cheer
ORG
,
P&G
ORG
's share is now estimated to be
12 %
PERCENT
. While the
Japanese
NORP
have embraced the compact packaging and convenience of concentrated products , the true test for
P&G
ORG
will be in the
$ 4 billion
MONEY
U.S.
GPE
detergent market , where growth is slow and liquids have gained prominence over powders .
The company may have chosen to market the product under the
Cheer
ORG
name since it 's already expanded its best - selling
Tide
PRODUCT
into
16
CARDINAL
different varieties , including this
year
DATE
's big hit ,
Tide
PRODUCT
with
Bleach
PERSON
. With superconcentrates , however , it is n't always easy to persuade consumers that less is more ; many people tend to dump too much detergent into the washing machine , believing that it takes a cup of powder to really clean the laundry . In
the early 1980s
DATE
,
P&G
ORG
tried to launch here a concentrated detergent under the
Ariel
PERSON
brand name that it markets in
Europe
LOC
. But the product , which was n't as concentrated as the new
Cheer
ORG
, bombed in a market test in
Denver
GPE
and was dropped .
P&G
ORG
and others also have tried repeatedly to hook consumers on detergent and fabric softener combinations in pouches , but they have n't sold well , despite the convenience . But
P&G
ORG
contends the new
Cheer
ORG
is a unique formula that also offers an ingredient that prevents colors from fading . And retailers are expected to embrace the product , in part because it will take up less shelf space . " When shelf space was cheap , bigger was better , " says
Hugh Zurkuhlen
PERSON
, an analyst at
Salomon Bros
ORG
. But with so many brands vying for space , that 's no longer the case . If the new
Cheer
ORG
sells well , the trend toward smaller packaging is likely to accelerate as competitors follow with their own superconcentrates .
Then retailers " will probably push the -LCB- less - established -RCB- brands out altogether , " he says . Competition is bound to get tougher if
Kao
ORG
introduces a product like
Attack
PRODUCT
in the
U.S.
GPE
. To be sure ,
Kao
ORG
would n't have an easy time taking
U.S.
GPE
market share away from the mighty
P&G
ORG
, which has
about 23 %
PERCENT
of the market .
Kao
ORG
officials previously have said they are interested in selling detergents in the
U.S.
GPE
, but so far the company has focused on acquisitions , such as
last year 's
DATE
purchase of
Andrew Jergens Co.
ORG
, a
Cincinnati
GPE
hand - lotion maker . It also has a product - testing facility in
California
GPE
. Some believe
P&G
ORG
's interest in a superconcentrated detergent goes beyond the concern for the
Japanese
NORP
. " This is something
P&G
ORG
would do with or without
Kao
ORG
, " says Mr.
Zurkuhlen
PERSON
. Of all the ethnic tensions in
America
GPE
, which is the most troublesome right now ? A good bet would be the tension between blacks and
Jews
NORP
in
New York City
GPE
.
Or so it must seem to
Jackie Mason
PERSON
, the veteran
Jewish
NORP
comedian appearing in a new
ABC
ORG
sitcom airing on
Tuesday
DATE
nights
TIME
-LRB-
9:30 - 10 p.m. EDT
TIME
-RRB-
PERSON
. Not only is Mr.
Mason
PERSON
the star of "
Chicken Soup
PERSON
, " he 's also the inheritor of a comedic tradition dating back to "
Duck Soup
PERSON
, " and he 's currently a man in hot water . Here , in neutral language , is the gist of Mr.
Mason
PERSON
's remarks , quoted
first
ORDINAL
in
the Village Voice
ORG
while he was a paid spokesman for the
Rudolph Giuliani
PERSON
mayoral campaign , and then in
Newsweek
ORG
after he and the campaign parted company . Mr.
Mason
PERSON
said that many
Jewish
NORP
voters feel guilty toward blacks , so they support black candidates uncritically . He said that many black voters feel bitter about racial discrimination , so they , too , support black candidates uncritically . He said that
Jews
NORP
have contributed more to black causes over
the years
DATE
than vice versa . Of course , Mr.
Mason
PERSON
did not use neutral language . As a practitioner of ethnic humor from the old days on
the Borscht Belt
FAC
, live television and the nightclub circuit , Mr.
Mason
PERSON
instinctively reached for the vernacular . He said
Jews
NORP
were " sick with complexes " ; and he called
David Dinkins
PERSON
, Mr.
Giuliani
PERSON
's black opponent , " a fancy shvartze with a mustache . " If Mr.
Mason
PERSON
had used less derogatory language to articulate his amateur analysis of the voting behavior of his fellow
New Yorkers
NORP
, would the water be quite so hot ?
It probably would , because few or none of the people upset by Mr.
Mason
PERSON
's remarks have bothered to distinguish between the substance of his comments and the fact that he used insulting language . In addition , some of Mr.
Mason
PERSON
's critics have implied that his type of ethnic humor is itself a form of racism . For example , the
New York
GPE
state counsel for the
NAACP
ORG
said that Mr.
Mason
PERSON
is " like a dinosaur . People are fast leaving the place where he is stuck . " These critics fail to distinguish between the type of ethnic humor that aims at disparaging another group , such as "
Polish
NORP
jokes " ; and the type that is double - edged , aiming inward as well as outward . The latter typically is the humor of the underdog , and it was perfected by both blacks and
Jews
NORP
on the minstrel and vaudeville stage as a means of mocking their white and gentile audiences along with themselves . In the hands of a zealot like
Lenny Bruce
PERSON
, this double - edged blade could cut both the self and the audience to ribbons . But wielded by a pro like
Jackie Mason
PERSON
, it is a constructive form of mischief . Why constructive ? Because despite all the media prattle about comedy and politics not mixing , they are similar in
one
CARDINAL
respect : Both can serve as mechanisms for easing tensions and facilitating the co-existence of groups in conflict .
That 's why it 's dangerous to have well - intentioned thought police , on college campuses and elsewhere , taboo all critical mention of group differences . As
Elizabeth Kristol
PERSON
wrote in
the New York Times
ORG
just before the
Mason
ORG
donnybrook , " Perhaps intolerance would not boil over with such intensity if honest differences were allowed to simmer . " The question is , if group conflicts still exist -LRB- as undeniably they do
-RRB-
PERSON
, and if Mr.
Mason
PERSON
's type of ethnic humor is passe , then what other means do we have for letting off steam ? Do n't say the TV sitcom , because that happens to be a genre that , in its desperate need to attract everybody and offend nobody , resembles politics more than it does comedy . It is true that the best sitcoms do allow group differences to simmer : yuppies vs. blue - collar
Bostonians
NORP
in "
Cheers
WORK_OF_ART
" ; children vs. adults in
" The Cosby Show
WORK_OF_ART
. " But these are not the differences that make headlines . In "
Chicken Soup
PERSON
, " Mr.
Mason
PERSON
plays
Jackie
PERSON
, a
Jewish
NORP
bachelor courting
Maddie
PERSON
-LRB-
Lynn Redgrave -RRB-
PERSON
, an
Irish
NORP
widow and mother of
three
CARDINAL
, against the wishes of his mother -LRB- Rita Karin
-RRB-
PERSON
and her brother
Michael -LRB-
PERSON
Brandon Maggart
PERSON
-RRB-
PERSON
. It 's worth noting that both disapproving relatives are immigrants . At least , they both speak with strong accents , as do
Jackie
PERSON
and
Maddie
PERSON
. It could n't be more obvious that "
Chicken Soup
PERSON
" is being made from an old recipe .
And a safe one -- imagine if the romance in question were between an
Orthodox
NORP
Jew and a member of
the Nation of Islam
ORG
. Back in
the 1920s
DATE
, the play and movie versions of " Abie 's Irish Rose " made the theme of courtship between the assimilated offspring of
Jewish
NORP
and
Irish
NORP
immigrants so popular that its author ,
Anne Nichols
PERSON
, lost a plagiarism suit on the grounds that the plot has entered the public domain . And it has remained there , as evidenced by its reappearance in a
1972
DATE
CBS
ORG
sitcom called "
Bridget Loves Bernie
WORK_OF_ART
, " whose sole distinction was that it led to the real - life marriage of
Meredith Baxter
PERSON
and
David Birney
PERSON
. Clearly , the question with "
Chicken Soup
PERSON
" is not whether the pot will boil over , but whether it will simmer at all . So far , the bubbles have been few and far between . Part of the problem is the tendency of all sitcoms , ever since
the didactic days
DATE
of
Norman Lear
PERSON
, to preach about social issues . To some extent , this tendency emerges whenever the show tries to enlighten us about ethnic stereotypes by reversing them . For instance ,
Michael dislikes Jackie
PERSON
not because he 's a shrewd
Jewish
NORP
businessman , but because he quits his well - paying job as a salesman in order to become a social worker . Even more problematic is the incompatibility between sitcom preachiness and Mr.
Mason
PERSON
's comic persona . The best moments in the show occur at the beginning and the end -LRB- and occasionally in the middle
-RRB-
PERSON
, when Mr.
Mason
PERSON
slips into his standup mode and starts meting out that old - fashioned
Jewish
NORP
mischief to other people as well as to himself .
But too often , these routines lack spark because this sitcom , like all sitcoms , is timid about confronting Mr.
Mason
PERSON
's stock in trade - ethnic differences . I 'm not suggesting that the producers start putting together episodes about topics like the
Catholic
NORP
- Jewish dispute over the
Carmelite
ORG
convent at
Auschwitz
PERSON
. That issue , like racial tensions in
New York City
GPE
, will have to cool down , not heat up , before it can simmer . But I am suggesting that they stop requiring Mr.
Mason
PERSON
to interrupt his classic shtik with some line about " caring for other people " that would sound shmaltzy on the lips of Miss
America
GPE
. At your age ,
Jackie
PERSON
, you ought to know that you ca n't make soup without turning up the flame . It was
Friday the 13th
DATE
, and the stock market plummeted
nearly 200
CARDINAL
points . Just a coincidence ? Or is
triskaidekaphobia
GPE
-- fear of the number
13
CARDINAL
-- justified ? In academia , a so - called
Friday the 13th
DATE
effect has been set up and shot down by different professors .
Robert Kolb
PERSON
and
Ricardo Rodriguez
PERSON
, professors of finance at
the University of Miami
ORG
, found evidence that the market is spooked by
Friday the 13th
DATE
. But their study , which spanned the
1962 - 85
DATE
period , has since been shown to be jinxed by an unlucky choice of data . In
the '70s
DATE
, the market took falls
nine
CARDINAL
times in a row on
Friday
DATE
the you - know - what . But the date tends to be a plus , not a minus , for stocks , according to
Yale Hirsch
PERSON
, a collector of stock market lore . Another study found that the
82
CARDINAL
Fridays the 13th
DATE
in the
1940 - 1987
DATE
period had higher than average returns -- higher even than
Fridays
DATE
in general , which tend to be strong days for stock prices . On the only other
Friday the 13th this year
DATE
, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose
about four
CARDINAL
points . Professor
Kolb
PERSON
says the original study , titled
Friday the 13th
DATE
, Part VII , was published tongue - in - cheek . In a similar vein , he adds that the anniversary of the
1987
DATE
crash and
Saturday
DATE
's full moon could have played a part , too , in
Friday
DATE
's market activity . If a hostile predator emerges for
Saatchi & Saatchi Co.
ORG
, co-founders
Charles
PERSON
and
Maurice Saatchi
PERSON
will lead a management buy - out attempt , an official close to the company said .
Financing for any takeover attempt may be problematic in the wake of
Friday
DATE
's stock - market sell - off in
New York
GPE
and turmoil in the junk - bond market . But the beleaguered
British
NORP
advertising and consulting giant , which
last week
DATE
named a new chief executive officer to replace
Maurice Saatchi
PERSON
, has been the subject of intense takeover speculation for
weeks
DATE
.
Last week
DATE
,
Saatchi
ORG
's largest shareholder ,
Southeastern Asset Management
ORG
, said it had been approached by
one or more third
CARDINAL
parties interested in a possible restructuring . And
Carl Spielvogel
PERSON
, chief executive officer of
Saatchi
ORG
's big
Backer Spielvogel Bates
ORG
advertising unit , said he had offered to lead a management buy - out of the company , but was rebuffed by
Charles Saatchi
PERSON
. Mr.
Spielvogel
PERSON
said he would n't launch a hostile bid . The executive close to
Saatchi & Saatchi
ORG
said that " if a bidder came up with a ludicrously high offer , a crazy offer which
Saatchi
ORG
knew it could n't beat , it would have no choice but to recommend it to shareholders . But -LCB- otherwise -RCB- it would undoubtedly come back " with an offer by management . The executive said any buy - out would be led by the current board , whose chairman is
Maurice Saatchi
PERSON
and whose strategic guiding force is believed to be
Charles Saatchi
PERSON
. Mr.
Spielvogel
PERSON
is n't part of the board , nor are any of the other heads of
Saatchi
ORG
's big
U.S.
GPE
- based ad agencies . The executive did n't name any price , but securities analysts have said
Saatchi
ORG
would fetch upward of
$ 1.3 billion
MONEY
.
The executive denied speculation that
Saatchi
ORG
was bringing in the new chief executive officer only to clean up the company financially so that the brothers could lead a buy - back . That speculation abounded
Friday
DATE
as industry executives analyzed the appointment of the new chief executive ,
Robert Louis - Dreyfus
PERSON
, who joins
Saatchi
ORG
and becomes a member of its board on
Jan. 1
DATE
. Mr.
Louis - Dreyfus
PERSON
, formerly chief executive of the pharmaceutical research firm
IMS International Inc.
ORG
, has a reputation as a savvy financial manager , and will be charged largely with repairing
Saatchi
ORG
's poor financial state . Asked about the speculation that Mr.
Louis - Dreyfus
PERSON
has been hired to pave the way for a buy - out by the brothers , the executive replied , " That is n't the reason
Dreyfus
GPE
has been brought in . He was brought in to turn around the company . " Separately , several
Saatchi
ORG
agency clients said they believe the company 's management shakeup will have little affect on them . " It has n't had any impact on us , nor do we expect it to , " said a spokeswoman for
Miller Brewing Co.
ORG
, a major client of
Backer Spielvogel
ORG
.
John Lampe
PERSON
, director of advertising at
PaineWebber Inc.
ORG
, a
Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising
ORG
client , said : " We have no problem with the announcement , because we do n't know what change it 's going to bring about . We are n't going to change agencies because of a change in
London
GPE
. " Executives at
Backer Spielvogel
ORG
client
Avis Inc.
ORG
, as well as at
Saatchi
ORG
client
Philips Lighting Co.
ORG
, also said they saw no effect .
Executives at
Prudential - Bache Securities Inc.
ORG
, a
Backer Spielvogel
ORG
client that is reviewing its account , declined comment . Mr.
Spielvogel
PERSON
had said that
Prudential - Bache
ORG
was prepared to finance either a management buy - out and restructuring , or a buy - out of
Backer Spielvogel
ORG
alone , led by him . Ad Notes ... . NEW ACCOUNT :
California
GPE
's
Glendale Federal Bank
ORG
awarded its
$ 12 million to $ 15 million
MONEY
account to the
Los Angeles
GPE
office of
Omnicom Group 's
ORG
BBDO
ORG
agency . The account was previously handled by
Davis
PERSON
,
Ball & Colombatto Advertising Inc.
ORG
, a
Los Angeles
GPE
agency . ACCOUNT REVIEW :
Royal Crown Cola Co.
ORG
has ended its relationship with the
Boston
GPE
office of
Hill
GPE
, Holliday , Connors ,
Cosmopulos
PERSON
. The account had billed
about $ 6 million
MONEY
in
1988
DATE
, according to
Leading National Advertisers
ORG
. NOT - GUILTY PLEA :
As expected ,
Young & Rubicam Inc.
ORG
along with
two
CARDINAL
senior executives and a former employee , pleaded not guilty in federal court in
New Haven
GPE
,
Conn.
GPE
, to conspiracy and racketeering charges . The government has charged that they bribed
Jamaican
NORP
officials to win
the Jamaica Tourist Board
ORG
ad account in
1981
DATE
. A spokesman for the
U.S.
GPE
Attorney 's office said extradition proceedings are " just beginning " for the other
two
CARDINAL
defendants in the case ,
Eric Anthony Abrahams
PERSON
, former
Jamaican
NORP
tourism minister , and
Jamaican
NORP
businessman
Arnold Foote Jr
PERSON
.
KOREAN AGENCY
ORG
:
The Samsung Group
ORG
and
Bozell Inc.
ORG
agreed to establish a joint venture advertising agency in
South Korea
GPE
.
Bozell Cheil Corp.
ORG
, as the new agency will be called , will be based in
Seoul
GPE
and is
70 %
PERCENT
owned by
Samsung
ORG
and
30 %
PERCENT
owned by
Bozell
ORG
.
Samsung
ORG
already owns
Korea First Advertising Co.
ORG
, that country 's largest agency .
Bozell
ORG
joins
Backer Spielvogel Bates
ORG
and
Ogilvy Group
ORG
as
U.S.
GPE
agencies with interests in
Korean
NORP
agencies . As small investors peppered their mutual funds with phone calls over
the weekend
DATE
, big fund managers said they have a strong defense against any wave of withdrawals : cash .
Unlike
the weekend
DATE
before
Black Monday
EVENT
, the funds were n't swamped with heavy withdrawal requests . And many fund managers have built up cash levels and say they will be buying stock
this week
DATE
. At
Fidelity Investments
ORG
, the nation 's largest fund company , telephone volume was up sharply , but it was still at
just half
CARDINAL
the level of
the weekend
DATE
preceding
Black Monday
EVENT
in
1987
DATE
. The
Boston
GPE
firm said stock - fund redemptions were running at
less than one - third
CARDINAL
the level
two years ago
DATE
. As of
yesterday
DATE
afternoon , the redemptions represented
less than
PERCENT
15 % of the total cash position of
about $ 2 billion
MONEY
of
Fidelity
ORG
's stock funds . "
Two years ago
DATE
there were massive redemption levels over
the weekend
DATE
and a lot of fear around , " said
C. Bruce Johnstone
PERSON
, who runs
Fidelity Investments '
ORG
$ 5 billion
MONEY
Equity - Income Fund . " This feels more like a
one
CARDINAL
- shot deal . People are n't panicking . " The test may come
today
DATE
.
Friday
DATE
's stock market sell - off came too late for many investors to act .
Some shareholders have held off until
today
DATE
because any fund exchanges made after
Friday
DATE
's close would take place at
today
DATE
's closing prices . Stock fund redemptions during the
1987
DATE
debacle did n't begin to snowball until after the market opened on
Black Monday
EVENT
. But fund managers say they 're ready . Many have raised cash levels , which act as a buffer against steep market declines .
Mario Gabelli
PERSON
, for instance , holds cash positions well above
20 %
PERCENT
in several of his funds .
Windsor Fund 's
ORG
John Neff
PERSON
and Mutual Series '
Michael Price
PERSON
said they had raised their cash levels to
more than 20 % and 30 %
PERCENT
, respectively ,
this year
DATE
. Even
Peter Lynch
PERSON
, manager of
Fidelity
ORG
's
$ 12.7 billion
MONEY
Magellan Fund
ORG
, the nation 's largest stock fund , built up cash to
7 %
PERCENT
or
$ 850 million
MONEY
.
One
CARDINAL
reason is that after
two years of monthly
DATE
net redemptions , the fund posted net inflows of money from investors in
August
DATE
and
September
DATE
. " I 've let the money build up , " Mr.
Lynch
PERSON
said , who added that he has had trouble finding stocks he likes . Not all funds have raised cash levels , of course .
As a group , stock funds held
10.2 %
PERCENT
of assets in cash as of
August
DATE
, the latest figures available from
the Investment Company Institute
ORG
. That was modestly higher than the
8.8 %
PERCENT
and
9.2 %
PERCENT
levels in
August
DATE
and
September of 1987
DATE
. Also , persistent redemptions would force some fund managers to dump stocks to raise cash . But a strong level of investor withdrawals is much more unlikely this time around , fund managers said . A major reason is that investors already have sharply scaled back their purchases of stock funds since
Black Monday
EVENT
. Stock - fund sales have rebounded in
recent months
DATE
, but
monthly
DATE
net purchases are still running at
less than half 1987
DATE
levels . " There 's not nearly as much froth , " said
John Bogle
PERSON
, chairman of
Vanguard Group Inc.
ORG
, a big
Valley Forge
GPE
,
Pa.
GPE
, fund company . Many fund managers argue that now 's the time to buy .
Vincent Bajakian
PERSON
, manager of the
$ 1.8 billion
MONEY
Wellington Fund
ORG
, added to his positions in
Bristol - Myers Squibb
ORG
,
Woolworth
ORG
and
Dun & Bradstreet
ORG
Friday
DATE
. And
today
DATE
he 'll be looking to buy drug stocks like
Eli Lilly
ORG
,
Pfizer
PERSON
and
American Home Products
ORG
whose dividend yields have been bolstered by stock declines .
Fidelity
ORG
's Mr.
Lynch
PERSON
, for his part , snapped up
Southern Co.
ORG
shares
Friday
DATE
after the stock got hammered . If the market drops further
today
DATE
, he said he 'll be buying blue chips such as
Bristol - Myers
ORG
and
Kellogg
ORG
. " If they croak stocks like that , " he said , it presents an opportunity that is " the kind of thing you dream about . " Major mutual - fund groups said phone calls were arriving at twice the normal
weekend
DATE
pace
yesterday
DATE
. But most investors were seeking share prices and other information . Trading volume was only modestly higher than normal . Still , fund groups are n't taking any chances . They hope to avoid the jammed phone lines and other snags that infuriated some fund investors in
October 1987
DATE
.
Fidelity
ORG
on
Saturday
DATE
opened its
54
CARDINAL
walk - in investor centers across the country . The centers normally are closed through
the weekend
DATE
.
In addition ,
East Coast
LOC
centers will open at
7:30 EDT this morning
TIME
, instead of the normal
8:30
TIME
.
T. Rowe Price Associates Inc.
ORG
increased its staff of phone representatives to handle investor requests . The
Baltimore
GPE
- based group noted that some investors moved money from stock funds to money - market funds . But most investors seemed to be " in an information mode rather than in a transaction mode , " said
Steven Norwitz
PERSON
, a vice president . And
Vanguard
ORG
, among other groups , said it was adding more phone representatives
today
DATE
to help investors get through . In an unusual move , several funds moved to calm investors with recordings on their toll - free phone lines . " We view -LCB-
Friday
DATE
's -RCB- market decline as offering us a buying opportunity as long - term investors , " a recording at
Gabelli & Co.
ORG
funds said over
the weekend
DATE
.
The Janus Group
ORG
had a similar recording for investors . Several fund managers expect a rough market
this morning
TIME
before prices stabilize . Some early selling is likely to stem from investors and portfolio managers who want to lock in this
year
DATE
's fat profits .
Stock funds have averaged a staggering gain of
25 %
PERCENT
through
September
DATE
, according to
Lipper Analytical Services Inc
ORG
.
Elaine Garzarelli
PERSON
, who runs
Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. 's
ORG
$ 335 million
MONEY
Sector Analysis Portfolio , predicts the market will open down
at least 50
CARDINAL
points on technical factors and " some panic selling . " But she expects prices to rebound soon and is telling investors she expects the stock market wo n't decline
more than 10 % to 15 %
PERCENT
from recent highs . " This is not a major crash , " she said . Nevertheless , Ms.
Garzarelli
PERSON
said she was swamped with phone calls over
the weekend
DATE
from nervous shareholders . "
Half
CARDINAL
of them are really scared and want to sell , " she said , " but I 'm trying to talk them out of it . " She added , " If they all were bullish , I 'd really be upset . " The backdrop to
Friday
DATE
's slide was markedly different from that of the
October 1987
DATE
crash , fund managers argue .
Two years ago
DATE
, unlike
today
DATE
, the dollar was weak , interest rates were rising and the market was very overvalued , they say . " From the investors ' standpoint , institutions and individuals learned a painful lesson ... by selling at the lows " on
Black Monday
EVENT
, said
Stephen Boesel
PERSON
, manager of the
$ 580 million
MONEY
T. Rowe Price Growth
ORG
and Income Fund .
This time , " I do n't think we 'll get a panic reaction .
Valley Federal Savings & Loan Association
ORG
said
Imperial Corp. of America
ORG
withdrew from regulators its application to buy
five
CARDINAL
Valley Federal
ORG
branches , leaving the transaction in limbo . The broken purchase appears as additional evidence of trouble at
Imperial Corp.
ORG
, whose spokesman said the company withdrew its application from
the federal Office of Thrift Supervision
ORG
because of an informal notice that
Imperial
ORG
's thrift unit failed to meet Community Reinvestment Act requirements .
The Community Reinvestment Act
ORG
requires savings and loan associations to lend money in amounts related to areas where deposits are received . The transaction , announced in
August
DATE
, included
about $ 146 million
MONEY
in deposits at the
five
CARDINAL
outlets in
California
GPE
's
San Joaquin Valley
GPE
. Terms were n't disclosed , but
Valley Federal
ORG
had said it expected to post a modest pretax gain and to save
about $ 2 million
MONEY
in operating costs
annually
DATE
.
Valley Federal
ORG
said
Friday
DATE
that it is considering whether to seek another buyer for the branches or to pursue the transaction with
Imperial Corp.
ORG
, which said it is attempting to meet Community Reinvestment Act requirements .
Valley Federal
ORG
, with assets of
$ 3.3 billion
MONEY
, is based in
Van Nuys
GPE
.
Imperial Corp.
ORG
, based in
San Diego
GPE
, is the parent of
Imperial Savings & Loan
ORG
.
In
the first six months of the year
DATE
it posted a net loss of
$ 33.1 million
MONEY
.
Food and Drug Administration
ORG
spokesman
Jeff Nesbit
PERSON
said the agency has turned over evidence in a criminal investigation concerning
Vitarine Pharmaceuticals Inc.
ORG
to the
U.S.
GPE
Attorney 's office in
Baltimore
GPE
. Neither Vitarine nor any of
the Springfield Gardens
LOC
,
N.Y.
GPE
, company 's officials or employees have been charged with any crimes .
Vitarine
ORG
won approval to market a version of a blood pressure medicine but acknowledged that it substituted a
SmithKline Beecham PLC
ORG
product as its own in tests . Mr.
Nesbit
PERSON
also said the
FDA
ORG
has asked
Bolar Pharmaceutical Co.
ORG
to recall at the retail level its urinary tract antibiotic . But so far the company has n't complied with that request , the spokesman said .
Bolar
ORG
, the subject of a criminal investigation by the
FDA
ORG
and
the Inspector General 's
ORG
office of
the Health and Human Services Department
ORG
, only agreed to recall
two
CARDINAL
strengths of its version of
Macrodantin
GPE
" as far down as direct customers , mostly wholesalers , " Mr.
Nesbit
PERSON
said .
Bolar
ORG
, of
Copiague
GPE
,
N.Y.
GPE
, earlier began a voluntary recall of both its
100
CARDINAL
milligram and
50
CARDINAL
milligram versions of the drug . The
FDA
ORG
has said it presented evidence it uncovered to the company indicating that
Bolar
ORG
substituted the brand - name product for its own to gain government approval to sell generic versions of
Macrodantin
GPE
.
Bolar
ORG
has denied that it switched the brand - name product for its own in such testing .
Financial Corp.
ORG
of
Santa Barbara
GPE
filed suit against former stock speculator
Ivan F. Boesky
PERSON
and
Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.
ORG
, charging they defrauded the thrift by concealing their relationship when persuading it to buy
$ 284 million
MONEY
in high - yield , high - risk junk bonds . In a suit filed in federal court
Thursday
DATE
, the S&L alleged that a " disproportionate number " of the bonds it purchased in
1984
DATE
declined in value .
Financial Corp.
ORG
purchased the bonds , the suit alleged , after Mr.
Boesky
PERSON
and
Drexel
ORG
negotiated an agreement for
Vagabond Hotels
ORG
to purchase a
51 %
PERCENT
stake in the thrift for
about $ 34 million
MONEY
.
Vagabond Hotels
PERSON
was controlled by Mr.
Boesky
PERSON
, who currently is serving a prison term for securities violations . Officials at
Drexel
ORG
said they had n't seen the suit and thus could n't comment . In addition to
$ 33 million
MONEY
compensatory damages , the suit seeks
$ 100 million
MONEY
in punitive damages . Also named in the suit is
Ivan F. Boesky Corp.
PERSON
and
Northview Corp.
ORG
, the successor company to
Vagabonds Hotels
ORG
. Northview officials could n't be located .
Financial Corp.
ORG
said it agreed to buy the bonds after a representative of
Ivan F. Boesky Corp.
ORG
visited it in
November 1983
DATE
and said
Financial Corp.
ORG
could improve its financial condition by purchasing the bonds . Shortly before the visit , Mr.
Boesky
PERSON
and
Drexel
ORG
representives had met with
Financial Corp.
ORG
officials and had signed a letter of intent to acquire the
51 %
PERCENT
stake in the company . However , the agreement was canceled in
June 1984
DATE
.
Financial Corp.
ORG
purchased the bonds in
at least 70
CARDINAL
different transactions in
1984
DATE
and since then has realized
$ 11 million
MONEY
in losses on them , the company said . A consortium of private investors operating as
LJH Funding Co.
ORG
said it has made a
$ 409 million
MONEY
cash bid for most of
L.J. Hooker Corp. 's
ORG
real - estate and shopping - center holdings . The
$ 409 million
MONEY
bid includes the assumption of
an estimated $ 300 million
MONEY
in secured liabilities on those properties , according to those making the bid . The group is led by
Jay Shidler
PERSON
, chief executive officer of
Shidler Investment Corp.
ORG
in
Honolulu
GPE
, and
A. Boyd Simpson
PERSON
, chief executive of the
Atlanta
GPE
- based
Simpson Organization Inc
ORG
. Mr.
Shidler
PERSON
's company specializes in commercial real - estate investment and claims to have
$ 1 billion
MONEY
in assets ; Mr.
Simpson
PERSON
is a developer and a former senior executive of
L.J. Hooker
ORG
. " The assets are good , but they require more money and management " than can be provided in
L.J. Hooker 's
ORG
current situation , said Mr.
Simpson
PERSON
in an interview . "
Hooker
ORG
's philosophy was to build and sell . We want to build and hold . "
L.J. Hooker
ORG
, based in
Atlanta
GPE
, is operating with protection from its creditors under
Chapter 11
LAW
of
the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
ORG
. Its parent company ,
Hooker Corp.
ORG
of
Sydney
GPE
,
Australia
GPE
, is currently being managed by a court - appointed provisional liquidator .
Sanford Sigoloff
PERSON
, chief executive of
L.J. Hooker
ORG
, said
yesterday
DATE
in a statement that he has not yet seen the bid but that he would review it and bring it to the attention of the creditors committee . The
$ 409 million
MONEY
bid is estimated by Mr.
Simpson
PERSON
as representing
75 %
PERCENT
of the value of all
Hooker
ORG
real - estate holdings in the
U.S.
GPE
. Not included in the bid are
Bonwit Teller
ORG
or
B. Altman & Co.
ORG
,
L.J. Hooker 's
ORG
department - store chains . The offer covers the massive
1.8 million - square - foot
QUANTITY
Forest Fair Mall in
Cincinnati
GPE
, the
800,000 square - foot
QUANTITY
Richland Fashion Mall in
Columbia
GPE
,
S.C.
GPE
, and the
700,000 square - foot
QUANTITY
Thornton Town Center
ORG
mall in
Thornton
GPE
, Colo . The
Thornton
PERSON
mall opened
Sept. 19
DATE
with a
Bigg
PERSON
's hypermarket as its anchor ; the
Columbia
ORG
mall is expected to open
Nov. 15
DATE
. Other
Hooker
ORG
properties included are a
20
CARDINAL
- story office tower in midtown
Atlanta
GPE
, expected to be completed
next February
DATE
; vacant land sites in
Florida
GPE
and
Ohio
GPE
;
L.J. Hooker International
ORG
, the commercial real - estate brokerage company that once did business as
Merrill Lynch Commercial Real Estate
ORG
, plus other shopping centers .
The consortium was put together by
Hoare Govett
PERSON
, the
London
GPE
- based investment banking company that is a subsidiary of
Security Pacific Corp
ORG
. " We do n't anticipate any problems in raising the funding for the bid , " said
Allan Campbell
PERSON
, the head of mergers and acquisitions at
Hoare Govett
PERSON
, in an interview .
Hoare Govett
PERSON
is acting as the consortium 's investment bankers . According to people familiar with the consortium , the bid was code - named
Project Klute
PERSON
, a reference to the film " Klute " in which a prostitute played by actress
Jane Fonda
PERSON
is saved from a psychotic businessman by a police officer named
John Klute
PERSON
.
L.J. Hooker
ORG
was a small home - building company based in
Atlanta
GPE
in
1979
DATE
when Mr.
Simpson
PERSON
was hired to push it into commercial development . The company grew modestly until
1986
DATE
, when a majority position in
Hooker Corp.
ORG
was acquired by
Australian
NORP
developer
George Herscu
PERSON
, currently
Hooker
ORG
's chairman . Mr.
Herscu
PERSON
proceeded to launch an ambitious , but ill - fated ,
$ 1 billion
MONEY
acquisition binge that included
Bonwit Teller
ORG
and
B. Altman & Co.
ORG
, as well as majority positions in
Merksamer Jewelers
ORG
, a
Sacramento
GPE
chain ;
Sakowitz Inc.
ORG
, the
Houston
GPE
- based retailer , and
Parisian Inc.
ORG
, the
Southeast
LOC
department - store chain . Eventually Mr.
Simpson
PERSON
and Mr.
Herscu
PERSON
had a falling out over the direction of the company , and Mr.
Simpson
PERSON
said he resigned in
1988
DATE
. Since then ,
Hooker Corp.
ORG
has sold its interest in the
Parisian
NORP
chain back to
Parisian
NORP
's management and is currently attempting to sell
the B. Altman & Co.
ORG
chain . In addition ,
Robert Sakowitz
PERSON
, chief executive of the
Sakowitz
ORG
chain , is seeking funds to buy out the
Hooker
ORG
interest in his company .
The
Merksamer
ORG
chain is currently being offered for sale by
First Boston Corp
ORG
. Reached in
Honolulu
GPE
, Mr.
Shidler
PERSON
said that he believes the various
Hooker
ORG
malls can become profitable with new management . " These are n't mature assets , but they have the potential to be so , " said Mr.
Shidler
PERSON
. " Managed properly , and with a long - term outlook , these can become investment - grade quality properties .
Southmark Corp.
ORG
said that it filed part of its
10
CARDINAL
- K report with
the Securities and Exchange Commission
ORG
, but that the filing does n't include its audited financial statements and related information . The real estate and thrift concern , operating under bankruptcy - law proceedings , said it told the
SEC
ORG
it could n't provide financial statements by the end of its
first
ORDINAL
extension " without unreasonable burden or expense . " The company asked for a
15 - day
DATE
extension
Sept. 30
DATE
, when the financial reports were due .
Southmark
ORG
said it plans to amend its
10
CARDINAL
K to provide financial results as soon as its audit is completed .
On a recent
Saturday
DATE
night
TIME
, in the midst of
West Germany 's
GPE
most popular prime - time show , a contestant bet the host that she could name any of
100
CARDINAL
different cheeses after just one nibble , while blindfolded . The woman won the bet . But perhaps even more remarkable , the
three - hour
TIME
- show , " Wetten Dass " -LRB- Make a Bet -RRB- , regularly wins the top slot in the country 's TV ratings , sometimes drawing
as many as
CARDINAL
50 % of
West German
NORP
households . As the
1992
DATE
economic integration approaches ,
Europe
LOC
's cultural curators have taken to the ramparts against
American
NORP
" cultural imperialism , " threatening to impose quotas against such pop invaders as "
Dallas
GPE
, " "
Miami
GPE
Vice " and "
L.A. Law
WORK_OF_ART
. " But much of what the
Europeans
NORP
want to protect seems every bit as cheesy as what they are trying to keep out . The most militant opposition to
American
NORP
TV imports has come from
French
NORP
television and movie producers , who have demanded quotas ensuring that
a full
PERCENT
60 %
PERCENT
of
Europe
LOC
's TV shows be produced in
Europe
LOC
. So far , the
French
NORP
have failed to win enough broad - based support to prevail . A glance through the television listings and a few twists of the
European
NORP
television dial suggest
one
CARDINAL
reason why . While there are some popular action and drama series , few boast the high culture and classy production values one might expect . More
European
NORP
air time is filled with low - budget game shows , variety hours , movies and talk shows , many of which are authorized knock - offs of their
American
NORP
counterparts .
One
CARDINAL
of
France
GPE
's most popular
Saturday
DATE
night
TIME
programs features semi-celebrities seeking out their grammar - school classmates for on - air reunions . A
Flemish
NORP
game show has as its host a
Belgian
NORP
pretending to be
Italian
NORP
.
One
CARDINAL
of
Italy
GPE
's favorite shows , "
Fantastico
PERSON
, " a tepid variety show , is so popular that viewers clamored to buy a chocolate product , "
Cacao Fantastico
PERSON
, " whose praises were sung
each week
DATE
by dancing showgirls -- even though the product did n't exist . Topping the cheese stunt , on another typical evening of fun on
" Wetten Dass
WORK_OF_ART
, " a contestant won a bet with the show 's host ,
Thomas Gottschalk
PERSON
, that he could identify
300
CARDINAL
German
NORP
dialects over the telephone . A celebrity guest ,
U.S.
GPE
Ambassador to
West Germany
GPE
Richard Burt
PERSON
, also won a bet that someone could pile up $
150
MONEY
worth of quarters on a slanted coin . Mr.
Burt
PERSON
nonetheless paid the penalty as if he had lost , agreeing to spend a day with
West German
NORP
Foreign Minister
Hans - Dietrich Genscher
PERSON
frying and selling their combined weight in potato pancakes . If this seems like pretty weak stuff around which to raise the protectionist barriers , it may be because these shows need all the protection they can get .
European
NORP
programs usually target only their own local audience , and often only a small portion of that . Mega-hits in
Germany
GPE
or
Italy
GPE
rarely make it even to
France
GPE
or
Great Britain
GPE
, and almost never show up on
U.S.
GPE
screens . Attempts to produce "
pan-European
NORP
" programs have generally resulted in disappointment .
One
CARDINAL
annual
DATE
co-production , the
three - hour
TIME
- long "
Eurovision Song Contest
WORK_OF_ART
, " featuring soft - rock songs from each of
20
CARDINAL
European
NORP
countries , has been described as the world 's most boring TV show . Another , "
Jeux Sans Frontieres
WORK_OF_ART
, " where villagers from assorted
European
NORP
countries make fools of themselves performing pointless tasks , is a hit in
France
GPE
. A
U.S.
GPE
- made imitation under the title "
Almost Anything Goes
WORK_OF_ART
" flopped fast . For the most part , what 's made here stays here , and for good reason . The cream of the
British
NORP
crop , the literary dramas that are shown on
U.S.
GPE
public television as "
Masterpiece Theater
WORK_OF_ART
, " make up a relatively small part of
British
NORP
air time . Most
British
NORP
programming is more of an acquired taste . There is , for instance , "
One
CARDINAL
Man and His Dog , " a herding contest among sheep dogs . Also riveting to the
British
NORP
are
hours
TIME
of dart - throwing championships , even
more hours
TIME
of lawn bowling contests and still more hours of snooker marathons .
European
NORP
drama has had better , though still mixed , fortunes . The most popular such shows focus on narrow national concerns .
A
French
NORP
knock - off of "
Dallas
GPE
, " called "
Chateauvallon
WORK_OF_ART
" and set in a
French
NORP
vineyard , had a good run in
France
GPE
, which ended after the female lead was injured in a real - life auto accident . "
Schwarzwaldklinik
PERSON
, " -LRB-
Black Forest Clinic
ORG
-RRB-
PERSON
, a kind of
German
NORP
" St . Elsewhere " set in a health spa , is popular in
Germany
GPE
, and has spread into
France
GPE
.
Italy
GPE
's most popular series is a drama called "
La Piovra
WORK_OF_ART
, " or
" The Octopus
WORK_OF_ART
, " which chronicles the fight of an idealistic young investigator in
Palermo
GPE
against the
Mafia
ORG
. It was front - page news in
Italy
GPE
earlier this year
DATE
when the fictional inspector was gunned down in the series .
Spain
GPE
's most popular mini-series
this year
DATE
was " Juncal , " the story of an aging bullfighter . " The trend is pretty well established now that local programs are the most popular , with
American
NORP
programs
second
ORDINAL
, " says
Brian Wenham
PERSON
, a former director of programs for
the British Broadcasting Corp
ORG
. " Given a choice , everybody will watch a home - produced show . " But frequently there is n't much choice . Thus ,
Europe
LOC
has begun the recent crusade to produce more worthy shows of its own , programs with broader appeal . " We 've basically got to start from scratch , to train writers and producers to make shows that other people will want to see , " concedes
Colin Young
PERSON
, head of
Britain
GPE
's
National Film Theatre School
ORG
.
While some in the
U.S.
GPE
contend that advertising is the bane of television , here many believe that its absence is to blame for the
European
NORP
TV industry 's sluggish development . Until recently , national governments in
Europe
LOC
controlled most of the air time and allowed little or no advertising . Since production costs were guaranteed , it did n't matter that a program could n't be sold abroad or put into syndication , as most
American
NORP
programs are . But not much money was spent on the shows , either , a situation that encouraged cheap - to - make talk and game shows , while discouraging expensive - to - produce dramas . Now , however , commercial channels are coming to most
European
NORP
countries , and at the same time , satellite and cable technology is spreading rapidly .
Just last week
DATE
,
Greece
GPE
authorized
two
CARDINAL
commercial channels for the
first
ORDINAL
time ;
Spain
GPE
earlier began to allow commercial television alongside its state channels . The result is a new and huge appetite for programming . But perhaps to the consternation of those calling for quotas , most of this void is likely to be filled with the cheapest and most plentiful programming now available -- reruns -- usually of shows made in the
U.S.
GPE
.
Sky Channel
PERSON
, a
British
NORP
- based venture of
Australian - American
NORP
press tycoon
Rupert Murdoch
PERSON
, offers what must be a baffling cultural mix to most of its audience . The financially struggling station offers programs obviously made available cheaply from its boss 's other ventures .
In a
Madrid
GPE
hotel room recently , a viewer caught the end of a badly acted series about a fishing boat on
Australia
GPE
's
Great Barrier Reef
FAC
, only to be urged by the
British
NORP
announcer to " stay tuned for the further adventures of Skippy the
Kangaroo
GPE
. "
Lisa Grishaw - Mueller
PERSON
in
Bonn
GPE
,
Laura Colby
PERSON
in
Milan
GPE
,
Tim Carrington
PERSON
in
London
GPE
and
Carlta Vitzhum
ORG
in
Madrid
GPE
contributed to this article .
SOUTH AFRICA FREED
GPE
the
ANC
ORG
's
Sisulu
PERSON
and
seven
CARDINAL
other political prisoners .
Thousands
CARDINAL
of supporters , many brandishing flags of the outlawed
African National Congress
ORG
, gave the anti-apartheid activists a tumultuous reception upon their return to black townships across the country . Most of those freed had spent
at least 25 years
DATE
in prison . The
77 - year - old
DATE
Sisulu
PERSON
, sentenced to life in
1964
DATE
along with black nationalist
Nelson Mandela
PERSON
for plotting to overthrow the government , said equality for blacks in
South Africa
GPE
was in reach . The releases , announced
last week
DATE
by President
de Klerk
PERSON
, were viewed as
Pretoria
GPE
's tacit legalization of the
ANC
ORG
.
Mandela
PERSON
, considered the most prominent leader of the
ANC
ORG
, remains in prison . But his release within
the next few months
DATE
is widely expected .
The Soviet Union
GPE
reported that
thousands of tons
QUANTITY
of goods needed to ease widespread shortages across the nation were piled up at ports and rail depots , and food shipments were rotting because of a lack of people and equipment to move the cargo . Strikes and mismanagement were cited , and Premier
Ryzhkov
PERSON
warned of " tough measures . "
Bush
PERSON
indicated there might be " room for flexibility " in a bill to allow federal funding of abortions for poor women who are vicitims of rape and incest . He reiterated his opposition to such funding , but expressed hope of a compromise . The president , at a news conference
Friday
DATE
, also renewed a call for the ouster of
Panama
GPE
's
Noriega
PERSON
.
The White House
ORG
said minors have n't any right to abortion without the consent of their parents . The administration 's policy was stated in a friend - of - the - court brief urging
the Supreme Court
ORG
to give states more leeway to restrict abortions .
Ten
CARDINAL
of the nation 's governors , meanwhile , called on the justices to reject efforts to limit abortions .
The Justice Department
ORG
announced that the
FBI
ORG
has been given the authority to seize
U.S.
GPE
fugitives overseas without the permission of foreign governments . Secretary of
State
ORG
Baker
PERSON
emphasized
Friday
DATE
that the new policy would n't be invoked by the
Bush
PERSON
administration without full consideration of foreign - policy implications .
NASA
ORG
pronounced the space shuttle
Atlantis
PRODUCT
ready for launch
tomorrow
DATE
following a
five - day
DATE
postponement of the flight because of a faulty engine computer . The device was replaced . The spacecraft 's
five
CARDINAL
astronauts are to dispatch the
Galileo
PRODUCT
space probe on an exploration mission to
Jupiter
LOC
.
South Korea 's
GPE
President
Roh
PERSON
traveled to the
U.S.
GPE
for a
five - day
DATE
visit that is expected to focus on ties between
Washington
GPE
and
Seoul
GPE
.
Roh
PERSON
, who is facing calls for the reduction of
U.S.
GPE
military forces in
South Korea
GPE
, is to meet with
Bush
PERSON
tomorrow
DATE
and is to address a joint session of
Congress
ORG
on
Wednesday
DATE
.
China
GPE
's
Communist
NORP
leadership voted to purge the party of " hostile and anti-party elements " and wealthy private businessmen , whom they called exploiters . The decision , reported by the official
Xinhua News Agency
ORG
, indicated that the crackdown prompted by student - led pro-democracy protests in
June
DATE
is intensifying .
Hundreds
CARDINAL
of
East Germans
NORP
flocked to
Bonn
GPE
's Embassy in
Warsaw
GPE
, bringing to
more than 1,200
CARDINAL
the number of emigres expected to flee to the West beginning
today
DATE
.
More than 2,100
CARDINAL
others escaped to
West Germany
GPE
through
Hungary
GPE
over the Weekend . In
Leipzig
GPE
, activists vowed to continue street protests to demand internal change .
Zaire
GPE
's President
Mobutu
PERSON
met in southern
France
GPE
with
Angolan
ORG
rebel leader
Savimbi
PERSON
and a senior
U.S.
GPE
envoy in a bid to revive an accord to end
Angola
GPE
's civil war . Details of the talks , described by a
Zairean
NORP
official as " very delicate , " were n't disclosed .
PLO
ORG
leader
Arafat
PERSON
insisted on guarantees that any elections in the
Israeli
NORP
- occupied territories would be impartial . He made his remarks to a
PLO
ORG
gathering in
Baghdad
GPE
. In the occupied lands , underground leaders of the
Arab
NORP
uprising rejected a
U.S.
GPE
plan to arrange
Israeli
NORP
- Palestinian talks as
Shamir
PERSON
opposed holding such discussions in
Cairo
GPE
.
Lebanese
NORP
Christian
NORP
lawmakers presented to
Arab
NORP
mediators at talks in
Saudi Arabia
GPE
proposals for a new timetable for the withdrawal of
Syria
GPE
's forces from
Lebanon
GPE
. A plan currently under study gives
Damascus
GPE
two years
DATE
to pull back to eastern
Lebanon
GPE
, starting from the time
Beirut
GPE
's legislature increases political power for
Moslems
NORP
.
Hurricane Jerry
EVENT
threatened to combine with the highest tides of
the year
DATE
to swamp the
Texas
GPE
- Louisiana coast .
Thousands
CARDINAL
of residents of low - lying areas were ordered to evacuate as the storm headed north in
the Gulf of Mexico
LOC
with
80 mph
QUANTITY
winds .
When Justice
William Brennan
PERSON
marks the start of his
34th year
DATE
on
the Supreme Court
ORG
today
DATE
, the occasion will differ sharply from previous anniversaries of his tenure . For the
first
ORDINAL
time , the
83 - year - old
DATE
justice finds his influence almost exclusively in dissent , rather than as a force in the high court 's majority . This role reversal holds true , as well , for his
three
CARDINAL
liberal and moderate allies , Justices
Thurgood Marshall
PERSON
,
Harry Blackmun
PERSON
and
John Stevens
PERSON
. But are these
four
CARDINAL
players ,
three
CARDINAL
of them in their
80s
DATE
, ready to assume a different role after
88 years
DATE
, collectively , of service on the high court ? Every indication is that the
four
CARDINAL
are prepared to accept this new role , and the frustrations that go with it , but in different ways . Justices
Brennan
PERSON
and
Stevens
PERSON
appear philosophical about it ; Justices
Marshall
PERSON
and
Blackmun
PERSON
appear fighting mad . The
four
CARDINAL
justices are no newcomers to dissent , often joining forces in
the past decade
DATE
to criticize the court 's conservative drift . But always , in
years
DATE
past , they have bucked the trend and have been able to pick up a
fifth
ORDINAL
vote to eke out a number of major victories in civil rights and liberties cases . Now , however , as the court 's new
five
CARDINAL
- member conservative majority continues to solidify , victories for the liberals are rare . The change is most dramatic for Justice
Brennan
PERSON
, the last survivor of the
mid-1960s
DATE
liberal majority under Chief Justice
Earl Warren
PERSON
.
In the
seven
CARDINAL
Supreme Court
ORG
terms from
the fall of 1962
DATE
through
the spring of 1967
DATE
, the height of
the Warren Court 's
ORG
power , Justice
Brennan
PERSON
cast
only 25
CARDINAL
dissenting votes in
555
CARDINAL
cases decided by the court . Last term alone he cast
52
CARDINAL
dissenting votes in
133
CARDINAL
decisions , with the contentious flag - burning ruling as his only big victory . But Justice
Brennan
PERSON
foresaw his new role , strongly defending the importance of dissents in a
1985
DATE
speech . " Each time the court revisits an issue , the justices will be forced by a dissent to reconsider the fundamental questions and to rethink the result , " he said . Moreover , in
recent months
DATE
he has said that when he was on the winning side in
the 1960s
DATE
, he knew that the tables might turn in the future . He has said that he now knows how Justice
John Harlan
PERSON
felt , a reference to the late conservative justice who was the most frequent dissenter from
the Warren Court 's
ORG
opinions . Associates of
81 - year - old
DATE
Justice
Marshall
PERSON
say he was " depressed " about the court 's direction
last spring
DATE
, but is feisty about his role and determined to speak out against the court 's cutbacks in civil rights . " We could sweep it under the rug and hide it , but I 'm not going to do it , " he said in a speech
last month
DATE
. He , like Justice
Brennan
PERSON
, considers dissents highly important for the future , a point that has n't escaped legal scholars .
Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe
ORG
says there is a " generation - skipping " flavor to current dissents .
The dissenters in
the Warren Court
ORG
, he says , appeared to be writing for the short - term , suggesting that the court 's direction might change soon . "
Brennan
PERSON
and
Marshall
PERSON
are speaking in their dissents to a more distant future , " he says .
Justice Blackmun
PERSON
, who will turn
81 next month
DATE
, also seems feisty about his new role . Associates say he takes some defeats more personally than his colleagues , especially attempts to curtail the right to abortion first recognized in his
1973
DATE
opinion ,
Roe
PERSON
vs. Wade . Friends and associates who saw Justice
Blackmun
PERSON
during
the summer
DATE
said he was no more discouraged about the court than in
recent years
DATE
. And his outlook improved after successful cataract surgery in
August
DATE
. But his level of frustration showed in a recent , impassioned speech to a group of
hundreds
CARDINAL
of lawyers in
Chicago
GPE
. He concluded his remarks by quoting , emotionally and at some length , according to those present , the late
Martin Luther King 's
PERSON
famous "
I Have a Dream
WORK_OF_ART
" speech from
the 1963 March
DATE
on
Washington
GPE
. Justice
Stevens
PERSON
,
69
DATE
, is probably the most philosophical of the dissenters about his role , in part because he may be the least liberal of the
four
CARDINAL
, but also because he enjoys the intellectual challenge of arguing with the majority more than the others . If the role these
four
CARDINAL
dissenters are assuming is a familiar one in modern
Supreme Court
ORG
history , it also differs in an important way from recent history , court watchers say .
" The dissenters of
the Warren Court
ORG
were often defending a legal legacy that they inherited , " says Prof.
A.E. Dick Howard
PERSON
of
the University of Virginia Law School
ORG
, " but the dissenters
today
DATE
are defending a legacy that they created . The official
White House
ORG
reaction to a plunge in stock prices has a
60 - year
DATE
history of calm , right up through
Friday
DATE
.
Treasury
ORG
Secretary
Nicholas Brady
PERSON
said in a statement
Friday
DATE
that the stock - market decline " does n't signal any fundamental change in the condition of the economy . " " The economy , " he added , " remains well - balanced and the outlook is for continued moderate growth . " Sound familiar ? Here 's what
Ronald Reagan
PERSON
said after the
1987
DATE
crash : " The underlying economy remains sound . There is nothing wrong with the economy ... all the indices are up . " Heard that before ? After the
1929
DATE
crash ,
Herbert Hoover
PERSON
said : " The fundamental business of the country ... is on a sound and prosperous basis .
The oil industry 's middling profits could persist through the rest of
the year
DATE
. Major oil companies in
the next few days
DATE
are expected to report much less robust earnings than they did for
the third quarter a year ago
DATE
, largely reflecting deteriorating chemical prices and gasoline profitability . The gasoline picture may improve
this quarter
DATE
, but chemicals are likely to remain weak , industry executives and analysts say , reducing chances that profits could equal their
year - earlier
DATE
performance . The industry is " seeing a softening somewhat in volume and certainly in price in petrochemicals , "
Glenn Cox
PERSON
, president of
Phillips Petroleum Co.
ORG
, said in an interview . " That change will obviously impact
third and fourth quarter
DATE
earnings " for the industry in general , he added . He did n't forecast
Phillips
PERSON
's results . But securities analysts say
Phillips
PERSON
will be among the companies hard - hit by weak chemical prices and will probably post a drop in
third - quarter
DATE
earnings . So , too , many analysts predict , will
Exxon Corp.
ORG
,
Chevron Corp.
ORG
and
Amoco Corp
ORG
. Typical is what happened to the price of ethylene , a major commodity chemical produced in vast amounts by many oil companies .
It has plunged
13 %
PERCENT
since
July
DATE
to
around 26 cents
MONEY
a pound .
A year ago
DATE
ethylene sold for
33 cents
MONEY
, peaking at
about 34 cents
MONEY
last December
DATE
. A big reason for the chemical price retreat is overexpansion . Beginning in
mid-1987
DATE
, prices began accelerating as a growing
U.S.
GPE
economy and the weak dollar spurred demand . Companies added capacity furiously . Now , greatly increased supplies are on the market , while the dollar is stronger , and domestic economic growth is slower .
Third - quarter
DATE
profits from gasoline were weaker . " Refining margins were so good in
the third quarter of last year
DATE
and generally not very good
this year
DATE
, " said
William Randol
PERSON
, a securities analyst at
First Boston Corp
ORG
. Oil company refineries ran flat out to prepare for a robust holiday driving season in
July
DATE
and
August
DATE
that did n't materialize . The excess supply pushed gasoline prices down in that period .
In addition , crude oil prices were up some from
a year earlier
DATE
, further pressuring profitability . Refiners say margins picked up in
September
DATE
, and many industry officials believe gasoline profits will rebound
this quarter
DATE
, though still not to the level of
1988
DATE
's
fourth quarter
DATE
. During
the 1988 second half
DATE
, many companies posted record gasoline and chemical profits . Crude oil production may turn out to be the most surprising element of companies ' earnings
this year
DATE
. Prices -- averaging
roughly $ 2
MONEY
a barrel higher in
the third quarter than a year earlier
DATE
-- have stayed well above most companies ' expectations . Demand has been much stronger than anticipated , and it typically accelerates in
the fourth quarter
DATE
. " We could see higher oil prices
this year
DATE
, " said
Bryan Jacoboski
PERSON
, an analyst at
PaineWebber Inc
ORG
. That will translate into sharply higher production profits , particularly compared with
last year
DATE
when oil prices steadily fell to below $
13
MONEY
a barrel in
the fourth quarter
DATE
. While oil prices have been better than expected , natural gas prices have been worse . In
the third quarter
DATE
, they averaged
about 5 %
PERCENT
less than they were in
1988
DATE
.
The main reason remains weather .
Last summer
DATE
was notable for a heat wave and drought that caused utilities to burn more natural gas to feed increased electrical demand from air conditioning use .
This summer
DATE
, on the other hand , had milder weather than usual . " We 've been very disappointed in the performance of natural gas prices , " said Mr.
Cox
PERSON
,
Phillips
PERSON
's president . " The lagging gas price is not going to assist
fourth quarter
DATE
performance as many had expected . " Going into
the fourth quarter
DATE
, natural gas prices are anywhere from
8 % to
PERCENT
17 %
PERCENT
lower than
a year earlier
DATE
. For instance , natural gas currently produced along
the Gulf Coast
LOC
is selling on the spot market for
around $ 1.47
MONEY
a thousand cubic feet , down
13 %
PERCENT
from $
1.69
MONEY
a thousand cubic feet
a year ago
DATE
.
Diamond Shamrock Offshore Partners
ORG
said it had discovered gas offshore
Louisiana
GPE
. The well flowed at a rate of
2.016 million cubic feet
QUANTITY
of gas a day through a
16 64 - inch
QUANTITY
opening at depths
between 5,782 and 5,824 feet
CARDINAL
.
Diamond Shamrock
PERSON
is the operator , with a
100 %
PERCENT
interest in the well .
Diamond Shamrock Offshore 's
ORG
stock rose
12.5 cents
MONEY
Friday
DATE
to close at $
8.25
MONEY
in
New York Stock Exchange
ORG
composite trading . Investors who bought stock with borrowed money -- that is , " on margin " -- may be more worried than most following
Friday
DATE
's market drop . That 's because their brokers can require them to sell some shares or put up more cash to enhance the collateral backing their loans . In
October 1987
DATE
, these margin calls were thought to have contributed to the downward spiral of the stock market . Typically , a margin call occurs when the price of a stock falls below
75 %
PERCENT
of its original value . If the investor does n't put up the extra cash to satisfy the call , the brokerage firm may begin liquidating the securities . But some big brokerage firms said they do n't expect major problems as a result of margin calls . Margin calls since
Friday
DATE
" have been higher than usual , but reasonable , " a spokesman for
Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc.
ORG
said .
Merrill Lynch & Co.
ORG
officials " do n't expect -LCB- margin calls -RCB- to be as big a factor as in
1987
DATE
" because fewer individual investors are buying stock on margin , a spokesman said .
Hugo Quackenbush
PERSON
, senior vice president at
Charles Schwab Corp.
ORG
, the
San Francisco
GPE
- based discount brokerage firm , said he did n't expect any immediate problems with margin calls for
Schwab
PERSON
customers . He said
Schwab
PERSON
had increased margin requirements " so customers have more of a cushion . " He added : " We learned a lesson in
1987
DATE
about volatility .
The UN Security Council
ORG
approved on
Tuesday
DATE
, a draft resolution for the establishment of an international court concerning the assassination of former
Lebanese
NORP
Prime Minister
Rafik Hariri
PERSON
, and expressed its severe condemnation of the assassination of
Lebanon
GPE
's Industry Minister
Pierre Gemayel
PERSON
, after discussions dominated by news of
Gemayel
PERSON
's assassination .
Hariri
PERSON
was killed on
February 14 , 2004
DATE
during what has become known as the era of "
Syrian
NORP
tutelage " in
Lebanon
GPE
. After this attack ,
Damascus
GPE
was forced to withdraw its soldiers from
Lebanon
GPE
, after
nearly 30 years
DATE
of presence there , through pressure from the public and the international community . Reports by
the International Investigation Commission
ORG
pointed to the involvement of
Syrian
NORP
and
Lebanese
NORP
officials in the crime . In statements reported by
Al - Hayat
PERSON
newspaper
today , Wednesday
DATE
,
Syrian
NORP
Deputy Foreign Minister ,
Faisal Al - Miqdad
PERSON
, said that
Syria
GPE
" would not agree to any of its citizens appearing before an international court because we trust our courts " , pointing out that the formation of an international tribunal to look into
Al - Hariri 's
PERSON
assassination " would put
Syria
GPE
under political pressure " .
He added that his country 's position was based " on the following :
firstly
ORDINAL
,
Syria
GPE
is
100 %
PERCENT
innocent of the crime and there is no need to corroborate this .
Secondly
ORDINAL
, if there was any
Syrian
NORP
citizen that might have been involved in this crime , then he would be a criminal and punished in the same way as any criminal appearing before the impartial
Syrian
NORP
courts " . He clarified that
the United Nations
ORG
had resorted to setting up international courts in other parts of the world such as
Sierra Leone
ORG
and the former
Yugoslavia
GPE
because " the courts there had collapsed but our courts are independent and fair and so we will not agree to any
Syrian
NORP
citizen being brought before an international court because we have confidence in our courts " . Former
American
NORP
President
Jimmy Carter
PERSON
is braving a savage
Israeli
NORP
campaign in
the United States
GPE
and the rest of the
Western
NORP
countries because he dared to speak out and break the barrier of silence , by comparing the
Hebrew
LANGUAGE
state to the white racist regime of
South Africa
GPE
and exposing the violations by its governments of the rights of the
Palestinians
NORP
. President
Carter
PERSON
faced a series of accusations beginning with anti-Semitism and ending with spreading lies , while he is the man who won
the Nobel Peace Prize
WORK_OF_ART
, and achieved for
Israel
GPE
the greatest strategic accomplishment in its short history , which is the signing of
the Camp David Accords
ORG
that split
Arab
NORP
ranks and got
Egypt
GPE
out of the confrontation , and established the
first
ORDINAL
diplomatic relations between
Israel
GPE
and the largest
Arab
NORP
State . President
Carter
PERSON
's book , which is on the best - seller book list , came as a shock to the
Jewish
NORP
lobby and a breach of its domination in the
American
NORP
media and political institutions , at a time when the whole world is paying an exorbitant price for the wars of the neo-conservatives ,
Israel
GPE
's supporters , in
Iraq
GPE
,
Afghanistan
GPE
, and soon in
Iran
GPE
. And perhaps some might argue that President
Carter
PERSON
did not speak as forcefully and dare to confront the
Jewish
NORP
lobby until after he left power , and is nearing the last stages of his senior age , which is true . But the man did not last in power
more than one
CARDINAL
term -LRB-
four years
DATE
-RRB-
PERSON
, and when he began to understand the truth of the conflict in the region , he lost the presidential elections .
President
Carter
PERSON
sided with his conscience as a human being , and he decided to speak his mind strongly and sharply against a racist state which hijacked , through its supporters ,
the White House
ORG
and the decision - making circle in it , and exploited it to serve its interests and its wars , and to cover for its crimes against the
Palestinian
NORP
people and the entire
Arab
NORP
nation .
Australian
NORP
Prime Minister
John Howard
PERSON
mentioned
today , Friday
DATE
, that he had no plans to send additional forces to
Iraq
GPE
, nor to reduce the number of troops in the war - torn
Gulf
LOC
country .
Howard
PERSON
's announcements came after speculation that
the United States
GPE
was planning to increase the number of troops in
Iraq
GPE
.
Howard
PERSON
told
the Nine Network
ORG
, " I do not have any plans at present to increase the number of
Australian
NORP
troops , nor do I have any plans to reduce them . "
Howard
PERSON
said that he would be notified if the
US
GPE
President decided to send more troops , but that did not mean that
Australia
GPE
would do the same . He added that " The situation at the next elections will depend on the situation in
Iraq
GPE
; the thing we wo n't do is to be part of any withdrawal , as it grants victory to the terrorists " .
Howard
PERSON
admitted that
Australia
GPE
depends on
the United States
GPE
, and asserted the necessity to continue this alliance .
Australia
GPE
, a strong supporter of the war on terror led by
the United States
GPE
, has
1,400
CARDINAL
soldiers deployed inside and outside
Iraq
GPE
. There are speculations that
the United States
GPE
has asked
Australia
GPE
to send more troops to
Iraq
GPE
.
President
Bush
PERSON
is now drowning in a sea of recommendations . . whose goal is to lift him out of the
Iraqi
NORP
quagmire that has been drowning him for
44 months
DATE
:
79
CARDINAL
recommendations from the
Baker
PERSON
- Hamilton Commission alone , recommendations from the
Pentagon
ORG
, from
State Department
ORG
, from
the National Security Council
ORG
, from
Congress
ORG
, and a memorandum that he received very late from his former
Defense
ORG
Secretary
Rumsfeld
PERSON
. . All of them pushing for change , and all of them involving an implicit admission of military and political failure . . As a whole , and because of their great number , variety , overlap , and sometimes contradictions , they may cause him more confusion and distraction , and hinder his ability to choose the most realistic approach . He now appears open to the idea of change . But to what extent is he ready for radical change ? And in which direction ? And who ultimately will decide the most appropriate approach ? Is it he or his new
Defense
ORG
Secretary , or the military leadership , or the
Congress
ORG
with its
Democratic
NORP
majority ?
Bush
PERSON
has previously excluded some of the fundamental suggestions of
the Baker Commission
ORG
, including holding direct talks with
Iran
GPE
and
Syria
GPE
, linking
the Iraqi War
EVENT
with the
Palestinian
NORP
issue , and setting a timetable for a withdrawal , as well as penalizing the
Iraqi
NORP
government if it fails to impose security . And if the evaluation and assessment were to be left to him , he may not find in this report magical solutions for his
Iraqi
NORP
crisis , nor recommendations that convince him of a need for radical change in his
Iraqi
NORP
policy . He had a previous position vis - a - vis the report as a whole , and he decided that it will not be a binding working paper .
It appears that he has a particular sensitivity towards it after it was said that the team of
Bush
PERSON
Senior had come to rescue the Prodigal Son . In any case , the report is a very long road map to deal with the issues of
the Middle East
LOC
, and is not a quick solution to stopping the violence and anarchy in
Iraq
GPE
.
The Arab Water Council
ORG
is currently looking into the provision of financial funding in order to update studies relating to the financial situation in
Arab
NORP
countries and to prepare regular reports on the
Arab
NORP
water situation and the recommendations needed to face future crises linked to water security .
Cairo
GPE
was host to the
3rd
ORDINAL
Regional Arab Water Conference
last week
DATE
, attended by irrigation ministers , the
Egyptian
NORP
Mahmoud Abu Zaid
PERSON
, the
Iraqi
NORP
Abdul Latif Rasheed
PERSON
, the
Moroccan
NORP
Abdulkarim Zahoud
PERSON
and the
Sudanese
NORP
Joseph Joakok
PERSON
, as well as
350
CARDINAL
experts from
22
CARDINAL
Arab
NORP
and foreign countries , in the course of which they warned of
Arab
NORP
countries ' increasing reliance on imported food .
Abu Zaid
PERSON
asserted that the time has come to rely on non-governmental organizations and civil society associations to provide suitable conditions to face the challenge of water scarcity and pointed out that one of the priorities of the work of
the Arab Water Council
ORG
is to set up a program funded by eminent
Arab
NORP
sponsors .
Abu Zaid
PERSON
said that the scarcity of water in the region dates back
50 years
DATE
and continues to increase at a rate in line with the population increase , alongside threats to water resources from rivers shared with neighboring countries and a worsening economic situation in several
Arab
NORP
countries which impedes steps towards development . He said that the difficult equation in the region is that of achieving food security since food production uses up
around 80 %
PERCENT
of
Arab
NORP
water resources . This means that there has to be cooperation in order to make use of the excess in some countries , alongside increased
Arab
NORP
investments in the field mentioned and the creation of cooperation strategies . The head of
the National Center for Water Research
ORG
in
Egypt
GPE
,
Shadin Abduljawad
PERSON
, presented a report to the conference which said that
65 %
PERCENT
of our water resources originate from outside the borders of
Arab
NORP
countries and that the percentage of water desalination in the arid
Arab
NORP
region is
close to
PERCENT
70 %
PERCENT
.
The
China
GPE
's handicapped sports cause has undergone the several stages of conceptualization , growth and expansion , and is currently rising . The holding of the
6th
ORDINAL
Far East and South Pacific
EVENT
Disabled Games will provide more impetus for this trend . Each development step of handicapped sports can not be separated from the concern and support of the
Party
ORG
and the government . At the beginning of the establishment of
the People 's Republic of China
GPE
, social welfare services and schools for blind children and deaf people were established successively everywhere . Welfare factories developed activities such as broadcast exercises , etc. and schools established physical education . As a part of the cause for the disabled , disabled sports began to grow .
Every year
DATE
, the nation allocates special funds to be used in developing handicapped sports activities . Nationwide handicapped sports games began to be held in
the late 1950's
DATE
. The games accelerated improvement and drove popularization .
The handicapped sports cause has gradually grown . Since the reform and opening up , the
Chinese
NORP
economy has developed rapidly . This enabled more people to put money and material resource into the disabled sports cause . In
the short 10 years
DATE
, the cause has achieved success of attention from
China
GPE
and abroad . It is reasonable to believe that the disabled cause will be increasingly recognized and supported as
China
GPE
's overall national strength escalates . The handicapped sports cause will also have broad development . The establishment and healthiness of disabled sports organizations provide organizational assurance for the development of the sports cause for handicapped people . The
Chinese
NORP
Injured and
Disabled People Sports Association
ORG
-LRB- renamed to
the Chinese Disabled Sports Association
ORG
in
1990
DATE
-RRB-
PERSON
was established in
October , 1983
DATE
. After this a succession of handicapped sports organizations were established throughout
China
GPE
. In
1985
DATE
,
the Chinese Mentally Impaired and Blind Sports Associations
ORG
were also established .
Having organization and leadership , activities such as the games and competitions , etc. were increasingly and frequently held . The enthusiasm of handicapped people participating in the sports activities was unprecedentedly increasing , sports levels continually improve and the reserve force is growing .
Three
CARDINAL
National Disabled Games were held respectively in
Hefei
GPE
,
Tangshan
GPE
and
Guangzhou
GPE
. The scale became larger and larger and the level became higher and higher . The games have received more broad attention and support of the public , and have attracted more disabled people to take part in the events . Since
1984
DATE
the Chinese Disabled Sports Association
ORG
has become a member of
8
CARDINAL
international disabled sports organizations successively , such as
the International Para Olympic Committee
ORG
, etc. and has established relations with disabled sports organizations in various countries and areas and taken part in international events such as
the Special Olympic Games
EVENT
, etc . In competitions and contacts , disabled
Chinese
NORP
people have revealed extraordinary physical abilities , achieved excellent results , enhanced friendship with disabled people from various countries and areas and contributed to the development of physical activities for disabled people around the world . "
The Guaranteed Law for Disabled Persons in the People 's Republic of China
WORK_OF_ART
" , which was drafted and implemented in
1991
DATE
, stipulates to organize and support disabled people to develop mass sports activities , to hold special games and to participate in important international competitions and communication . The guarantee of the law has and will continue to boost the vigorous development of the sports cause for
China
GPE
's disabled . Holding the
6th
ORDINAL
Asia - Pacific Special Olympic Games
EVENT
in
Beijing
GPE
will motivate all of society to better understand and support disabled sports .
It will make the public more conscious of helping disabled people and encourage more disabled people to take part in physical activities . It will , therefore , greatly assist in the development of the sports cause for
China
GPE
's disabled . Truly , the foundation of disabled sports in
China
GPE
is not very strong , popularization is not yet widespread , and compared with some developed countries , still has a large gap . However , the " impact " of
the Far South Games
EVENT
foreshadows a bright future for this civilized and progressive cause . -LRB- End
-RRB-
PERSON
In the script " Mongolian handicapped athletes prepare for
the Far South Sports Meet
ORG
" broadcast
today
DATE
,
the " Sports Association
ORG
Chairman
Lahagewasu
PERSON
" at the end of paragraph
three
CARDINAL
should be changed to "
Sports Association
ORG
Chairman
Lahagewasulen "
PERSON
.
Xinhua News Agency
ORG
,
August 31st
DATE
.
Xinhua News Agency
ORG
,
Guangzhou
GPE
,
September 1st
DATE
, by reporter
Wei Zhao
PERSON
In
the past two years
DATE
,
Guangdong Province
GPE
has exerted itself to explore new ways of attracting talent under market economy conditions , and has been active in using market mechanisms to allocate resources of talent , and has achieved preliminary results . " Taking the
first
ORDINAL
step " in
Guangdong
GPE
's reform and opening up in the
1980
DATE
's was closely related to the situation at that time of the " Peafowl Flying Towards the Southeast " -LRB- human talents from all over , one after another , going to
Guangdong
GPE
-RRB- . With the overall opening up of
China
GPE
's coastal areas , frontier areas , riverside areas and capital cities of every province since the
1990
DATE
's , the flow of talent tends to be multi-directional and the competition has become increasingly fierce . Further enhancing the attraction to talented persons has become the key point of
Guangdong
GPE
's further development .
Limo Qin
PERSON
, director of
the Talent Exchange and Service Center of Guangdong Province
ORG
has done analysis and said : " the economic development rate of
Guangdong
GPE
in
1993
DATE
was at an intermediate level of that in
the recent years
DATE
. In
that year
DATE
it introduced
more than 100,000
CARDINAL
talented persons of various types . Developing at this rate , in
the next ten years
DATE
, not including graduates from higher education institutes ,
Guangdong
GPE
's talent gap is conservatively estimated to surpass
1 million
CARDINAL
. Therefore , further opening minds and introducing talent are guidelines of
Guangdong
GPE
's policy regarding talented people . " In
recent years
DATE
, there have been more and more climaxes in
Guangdong
GPE
's talent market .
Each year
DATE
, there are several large - scale talent employment fairs whose service for
more than 1000
CARDINAL
employers and
more than 10,000
CARDINAL
applicants lasts for
more than half a month
DATE
.
In
the whole year of 1993
DATE
, talent exchange centers of personnel departments across the province registered
more than 463,000
CARDINAL
people applying for jobs . There were
62,000
CARDINAL
people with documents of transfer or employment processed , of which
45.8 %
PERCENT
had intermediate or advanced level titles of specialty or profession , and
78 %
PERCENT
had an undergraduate or higher degree . Talent introduction departments also actively went out visiting science and technology management talent .
Fourteen
CARDINAL
cities such as
Guangzhou
GPE
,
Shenzhen
GPE
, etc. went to
Beijing
GPE
for the
first
ORDINAL
national talent and technology exchange fair , where they established a total of
100
CARDINAL
employment booths . At
the beginning of 1993
DATE
,
six
CARDINAL
cities such as
Zhuhai
GPE
,
Foshan
GPE
, etc. also organized a delegation to advertise in the
US
GPE
and
Canada
GPE
for students studying abroad .
1006
DATE
students abroad filled out application forms , and quite a number of people have successively returned to
China
GPE
to take jobs . At the same time , the construction of talent market is also accelerating . Since
1991
DATE
when
Shenzhen
GPE
established the
first
ORDINAL
standing talent market , such " all - weather " talent exchange organizations have rapidly spread in
the Zhujiang Delta
LOC
and all cities within the province . Now , there are
fifteen
CARDINAL
cities with relatively more advanced economies in the province having built up regular markets . In order to further enhance the attraction of talent , to break through the barrier of " departmental ownership " of talent , and to promote the flow of talent by forming mechanisms of independent employment and job choice ,
Guangdong Province
GPE
has also paid greater attention to the formulation of relevant policies and regulations .
Limo Qin
PERSON
said in his introduction that in
recent years
DATE
the provincial government has successively issued documents such as " Temporary regulations on encouraging persons studying abroad to work in
Guangdong
GPE
" , " Notices on better advertising for talent " , etc . It will soon promulgate documents such as " Detailed rules for implementing temporary regulations on resignations of specialists , technicians and managers in state - owned units " and " Supplementary regulations of
Guangdong Province
GPE
on the management of
Chinese
NORP
side cadres in foreign investment enterprises " , etc . Additionally , some new methods in inviting and managing talent have been being tried in various regions . -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Guangzhou
GPE
,
April 23rd
DATE
, by reporter correspondent
Shengmin Zhao
PERSON
Guangzhou
GPE
's private sector economy is developing swiftly , enterprise scale is gradually enlarging , and has begun to develop towards the area of high and new technology industries . According to statistics , by
the first quarter of this year
DATE
, the number of registered private enterprises in
Guangzhou
GPE
has reached 7646 . There are
97,963
CARDINAL
employed people , and registered capital of private enterprises is
more than 3.08 billion yuan
MONEY
, respectively
10 % to 20 %
PERCENT
higher than that of the same period of
the previous year
DATE
. In
the first quarter of this year
DATE
, the development of
Guangzhou
GPE
's privately owned enterprises again showed many characteristics : all walks of life are developing extensively , and the development of industry and commerce is remarkable .
Privately owned industry and commercial enterprises total
5836
CARDINAL
. There are
76,724
CARDINAL
employed people , respectively increasing by
9.33 %
PERCENT
and
11.22 %
PERCENT
than
the end of last year
DATE
. The proportion of the number of private industries and private commerce in the total number of private enterprises and employed people of the whole city is respectively
76.33 %
PERCENT
and
78.32 %
PERCENT
, the number of recently opened private enterprises are continually increasing .
The first quarter this year
DATE
, totally , registered and recently started privately owned enterprises of the whole city are
851
CARDINAL
,
5.98 %
PERCENT
higher than that of the same period of
the previous year
DATE
. Additionally , the input of registered capital of privately owned enterprises has shown a trend of substantial growth . By
the end of the first quarter of this year
DATE
, the registered capital of
Guangzhou
GPE
's privately owned enterprises is
3.08 billion yuan
MONEY
,
24.97 %
PERCENT
higher than that of
the end of last year
DATE
.
Guangzhou
GPE
's private enterprises have begun to set foot in the area of high and new technology industries , and the rate of development is considerably fast . In
the first quarter of this year
DATE
, the number of science and technology consulting enterprises in
Guangzhou
GPE
has reached
534
CARDINAL
, more than double of that of the same period of
the previous year
DATE
. With the operation scale constantly expanding , the economic benefits have increased significantly . In
the first quarter of this year
DATE
,
Guangzhou
GPE
's private industries , construction industries and traffic and transportation industries have achieved a total output value of
412 million yuan
MONEY
,
22.62 %
PERCENT
higher than that of the same period of
the previous year
DATE
.
-LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Shanghai
GPE
,
August 31st
DATE
, by reporter
Jierong Zhou
PERSON
US
GPE
Commerce Secretary
Brown
PERSON
, who is visiting
China
GPE
now , said here
today
DATE
that
Shanghai
GPE
is a city whose economy is rapidly developing . The
US
GPE
commercial sector is very interested in building a good relationship with
Shanghai
GPE
.
Brown
PERSON
expressed that , both sides could achieve further co-operation in the areas of transportation , telecommunication , power generation , financial services etc .
Brown
PERSON
arrived in
Shanghai
GPE
from
Beijing
GPE
late last night
TIME
.
Today
DATE
,
Brown
PERSON
separately attended the signing of a
20 - year
DATE
joint investment agreement between a world famous power plant equipment manufacturer -- the
US
GPE
's
Westinghouse Company
ORG
and
the Shanghai Electric Group
ORG
; and the signing of a joint investment agreement between the
US
GPE
's
General Electric Capital Company
ORG
and
the Shanghai Electricity Company
ORG
to jointly invest in and establish a combustible engine electric power generation company . It is reported that , the joint - investment agreement between
the US Westinghouse Company
ORG
and
the Shanghai Electric Group
ORG
included the joint manufacture of key components of
300,000
CARDINAL
kW thermal power generating units , and simultaneously expanding co-operation in various areas of
600,000
CARDINAL
kW units . Co-operation between the
US
GPE
General Electric Capital Company
ORG
and
the Shanghai Electric Company
ORG
included investment in building
4
CARDINAL
sets of
100,000
CARDINAL
kW class turbine generating units .
This afternoon
TIME
,
Brown
PERSON
also visited
Shanghai
GPE
's
AMP Linking Company , Ltd.
ORG
, which was jointly invested and built by
the Shanghai Electric Component Company
ORG
and the
US
GPE
AMP China Limited Company
ORG
, situated in
Shanghai
GPE
's
Caohejing
GPE
high - tech development district . He also cut the ribbon for the
sixth
ORDINAL
US Boeing
EVENT
aircraft , which was introduced by
Shanghai Airlines
ORG
. Committee member of
the CCP Central Politburo
ORG
, and Secretary of
the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee
ORG
,
Bangguo Wu
ORG
met with
Brown
PERSON
this afternoon
TIME
and introduced the progress and development prospects of reforms and opening up in
Shanghai
GPE
.
Brown
PERSON
and his delegation left
Shanghai
GPE
for
Guangzhou
GPE
tonight
TIME
. The representative to
Shanghai
GPE
's Mayor , and
Municipal Foreign Economic and Trade Committee
ORG
Director ,
Zukang Wang
PERSON
went to the airport to escort the
US
GPE
guests . -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Beijing
GPE
,
September 1st
DATE
, by reporter
Liang Zhou
PERSON
China
GPE
's down and down products industry has arisen rapidly in
the past ten - odd years
DATE
and has now become an important component of light industry , with both annual export volumes and export values accounting for
half
CARDINAL
of the world 's total volume of down trade , and being well received in the international down market .
China
GPE
's down and down products industry started its rapid development in
the mid '80s
DATE
.
The entire industry makes use of
China
GPE
's resources and manpower advantage , and additionally stresses introducing advanced foreign technology and equipment , thus increasing production volume and quality by a large margin . According to incomplete statistics ,
China
GPE
currently has
over 3,000
CARDINAL
down and down product enterprises , among which , those above scale have reached
more than 600
CARDINAL
, with employed staff of
about 300,000
CARDINAL
. It has an annual production capacity of
50 million
CARDINAL
down products with a total annual industrial output value reaching
8 billion yuan
MONEY
. Through
more than ten years '
DATE
market development ,
China
GPE
has now become the world 's main down manufacturing country and down products export country ,
annually
DATE
exporting
nearly 30,000 tons
QUANTITY
of down and
over 20 million
CARDINAL
down products , with earned foreign exchange reaching
820 million US dollars
MONEY
, including down clothing export values accounting for
more than 50 %
PERCENT
of total industry export values . According to presentations , the quality of
China
GPE
's down industry products has shown a trend of stable increase . In
the first half of this year
DATE
, the country selectively examined
56
CARDINAL
down clothing enterprises , and products of
47
CARDINAL
enterprises passed completely , accounting for
84 %
PERCENT
. In market competition , products such as
Jiangxi
GPE
's
Yaya
PERSON
brand ,
Beijing
GPE
's
Yililan
GPE
brand ,
Guangdong
GPE
's
Galanz
PERSON
brand , and
Sichuan
GPE
's Tian'ge brand , etc. have great reputations . -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Beijing
GPE
,
September 1st
DATE
At the press conference held
this afternoon
TIME
,
Guofang Shen
PERSON
, spokesman of
the Foreign Ministry
ORG
, answered reporters ' questions such as the issue of
Hong Kong
GPE
and concerning the "
1995 financial year
DATE
overseas activities fund appropriation act " of the
US
GPE
, etc . A reporter asked :
the Standing Committee of the National People 's Congress
ORG
had passed a resolution regarding " the
three
CARDINAL
- tiered administrative system of
Hong Kong
GPE
will operate until
June 30th , 1997
DATE
, and then cease . " ; Then , what will the
three
CARDINAL
- level
Chinese
NORP
restructured administrative system be like ? And when does the
Chinese
NORP
side plan to set about preparing to construct this system ?
Guofang Shen
PERSON
said that
the HK - UK
ORG
three
CARDINAL
- level administrative system , namely the last HK -
UK
GPE
legislative council , the
two
CARDINAL
municipal departments , and the district parliament will only exist till
June 30th , 1997
DATE
. This is the inevitable outcome of the
UK
GPE
terminating its rule over
Hong Kong
GPE
at the designated time . He said that the
Chinese
NORP
government has repeatedly stated that
the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 's
GPE
first
ORDINAL
legislative assembly and regional organizations will be formed according to
the Basic Law
LAW
and relevant resolutions of
the National People 's Congress
ORG
. Currently ,
the Preparatory Work Committee of
ORG
the Preparatory Committee
ORG
of
the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
GPE
is studying relevant specific issues on forming
the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 's
GPE
first
ORDINAL
legislative assembly , and will submit suggestions to
the Preparatory Committee
ORG
that will be established in
1996
DATE
. A reporter asked : on
August 23rd
DATE
, the
US
GPE
president signed the "
1995 financial year
DATE
overseas activities fund appropriation act " in which it is stipulated that any donation made by the
US
GPE
to the
UN
ORG
population fund must not be used in
China
GPE
. What is your opinion of this ?
Guofang Shen
PERSON
said that this bill is a bill carrying political discrimination and extremely unfriendly to
China
GPE
. It is an insult to
China
GPE
's family planning policy , has seriously violated the mission and principles of the
UN
ORG
charter , and sets a very bad precedent for the provision of aid to multi-lateral organizations of the
UN
ORG
. He pointed out that " we resolutely oppose any country providing donations with attached conditions to the population fund . We do not hope to see the work of the
UN
ORG
population fund receiving interference or even being diverted from its principles and mission due to pressure from the
US
GPE
. " -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Beijing
GPE
,
August 31st
DATE
The main
Bureau of Customs
ORG
recently issued an announcement that
Customs
ORG
would implement protective measures for intellectual property rights at border entry and exit junctions starting on
September 15th , 1994
DATE
in accordance with currently implemented related laws and the " decision regarding the further strengthening of work protecting intellectual property rights " by
the State Council
ORG
. The announcement clearly pointed out that goods violating intellectual property rights , including exclusive rights of trademarks , copyrights and patent rights , were not allowed to be imported or exported ; when
Customs
ORG
discovers the import and export of goods that are reported as violating rights and other goods that were suspected of violating intellectual property rights , it has the right to ask the people importing and exporting the goods to provide legal proof of use of related intellectual property rights and make additional reports to
Customs
ORG
about the state of the intellectual property rights of goods .
Customs
ORG
is entitled to reject shipments of goods that can not provide legal proof ; for importing and exporting laser discs , laser video discs and importing laser disc molds and materials and laser videos as part of processing trade , the consignors and consignees shall complete
Customs
ORG
formalities based on relevant regulations of the country and proof of approval issued by relevant departments concerned with audio and video products ; when importing and exporting goods , if the consignors and consignees falsify conditions of the property rights of the goods , evade supervision of
Customs
ORG
, and smuggle goods that violate rights ,
Customs
ORG
will handle them in accordance with the relevant regulations .
The announcement also made some stipulations about the rights , responsibilities and obligations of the owners of intellectual property rights . The owners of intellectual property rights who are protected by
China
GPE
's law can report to local
Customs
ORG
when they discover that goods that violate their rights are going to be imported or exported . Based on rights certificates of the intellectual property rights -LRB- for example certificates of registration of intellectual property rights or samples of the works that are copyrighted and related materials sufficient to prove their rights
-RRB-
PERSON
, they can report to Custom locations where the relevant goods are imported or exported and also request
Customs
ORG
to investigate and deal with the import and export of goods that violate . Owners of intellectual property rights , when requesting
Customs
ORG
to investigate and deal with goods that violate rights , should bear responsibility for reporting , assist
Customs
ORG
to develop investigation work and pay the appraisal and investigation of the related goods and other related expenses . -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Jinan
GPE
,
September 2nd
DATE
, by reporter
Baixin Zhang
PERSON
Laiwu City
PERSON
of
Shandong Province
GPE
has established a cell structure cultivation center inside the agricultural new high level technology development and model zones , to introduce and tame improved breeds of nurseries , flowers and vegetables from home and abroad . In
the past two years
DATE
,
more than 50
CARDINAL
new breeds such as melons , vegetables , flowers and fruit trees , etc. have successively been introduced from countries such as
US
GPE
and
Japan
GPE
, etc. and has bred
3.5 million
CARDINAL
improved nurseries . According to understanding , currently
Shandong
GPE
has established
ten
CARDINAL
agricultural new high level technology development and model zones similar to that of
Laiwu City
GPE
.
A government official of
Shandong Province
GPE
told this reporter that this province established agricultural new high level technology development and model zones beginning in
1992
DATE
, whose main purpose is to accelerate the transformation of agricultural new high level technology achievements through introducing agricultural new high level technologies from home and abroad to carry out development in order to provide effective models for agricultural production and rural economy development to promote the transformation of traditional agriculture into modern agriculture . Currently ,
ten
CARDINAL
agricultural new high level technology development and model zones have designated
180,000 mu
QUANTITY
of land to become the central model zone . To accelerate construction of the model zones ,
Shandong Province
GPE
has totally invested capital of
more than 62 million yuan
MONEY
, with a construction area reaching
218,000 square meters
QUANTITY
. The model zones have basically implemented the
four
CARDINAL
conveniences of water , electricity , roads and telecommunications . In the agricultural new high level technology development and model zone of
Zibo City
GPE
in
the Zhangdian District
LOC
, plan to establish a agricultural scientific research training institute , a breeding area for improved agricultural varieties , an organic vegetable area , a quality orchard , the fine stock breeding farm , etc . Not only are some of the most advanced domestic agricultural technologies here , but also new varieties introduced from foreign countries . In
the past two years
DATE
, the
ten
CARDINAL
agricultural new high level technology development and model zones have promoted
more than a hundred
CARDINAL
new agricultural varieties , developed
23
CARDINAL
new high level technology projects entering the zone , and reaped better economic benefits and social benefits . The
Weihai
GPE
agricultural new high level technology development and model zone introduced a new potato variety , and after cultivation and breeding , has provided
50,000 kg
QUANTITY
of potatoes to society
this year
DATE
. They have also bred
200,000
CARDINAL
toxin - free fruit tree nurseries . New high level technology development and model zones have become
Shandong
GPE
's agricultural " model gardens " .
Many peasants often come here to learn techniques and purchase quality varieties . The modeling and leading effects of the model zones have become larger and larger .
Laiwu City
PERSON
has established a detoxification production base to carry out nursery detoxification on traditional products such as shallot , ginger and garlic , and after detoxification , the output of shallot , ginger and
garlic
PERSON
has increased more than doubled . -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Beijing
GPE
,
August 31
DATE
, by wire
Israel
GPE
's Foreign Minister ,
Shimon Peres
PERSON
, said that
China
GPE
, by persevering in going its own way , and concentrating its efforts on conquering poverty set an example for the people of every country of
the Middle East
LOC
. This is what
Peres
PERSON
said in the preface he composed especially for the
Chinese
NORP
edition of his just published new work " The
New Middle East
LOC
. "
Peres
PERSON
said : "
China
GPE
and
Israel
GPE
are at the
two
CARDINAL
ends of
Asia
LOC
, separated by '
ten thousand
CARDINAL
crags and torrents . ' Yet the people of our
two
CARDINAL
countries nevertheless are similar to one another .
The great
Chinese
NORP
people offered up to the world cultural riches on the spiritual plane and material plane . If these riches did n't exist , people would not be able to describe the course of history . " He said in addition : " We who live in western
Asia
LOC
are gazing at the east with a look of hope and reverence .
China
GPE
has already demonstrated to the entire world that the strategy for resolving the question of poverty in society lies in carrying out a plan that has been reasoned out and in concentrating strength towards a task that has a reasonable hope of success . . . . . . .
China
GPE
still believes in the path that it itself has specified . In the past it has not yielded to any pressure from outside , and now it still unswervingly defends the right to determine its own future for itself . " The book
" The New Middle East
WORK_OF_ART
" originally was published as an
English
LANGUAGE
edition around
the end of autumn last year
DATE
. The author starts the discussion from
September of that year
DATE
with
Israel
GPE
's signing
the Declaration of Principles of Palestinian Autonomy
WORK_OF_ART
with
the Palestine Liberation Organization
ORG
, and looks back at the complex struggles of
the Middle East
LOC
over
the past several hundred years
DATE
, especially
the most recent half century
DATE
. He expresses his views on building a new
Middle East
LOC
in the future . In the preface to the
Chinese
NORP
edition ,
Peres
PERSON
says that the leaders of every country must have vision , relinquish old grudges , and create peace in order to deal with " challenges of
tomorrow
DATE
. "
He points out , " At a time when we are on the threshold of
the 21st century
DATE
, warfare no longer has any use . The important problems we are up against are how to conquer poverty and scarcity . " To do this , he emphasized , " We must control the desert that is day - by - day eroding arable land , develop new sources of water , and carry out new engineering projects . "
Peres
PERSON
pointed out that these goals are not likely to be realized easily . They require a sensible attitude and a dedicated spirit . He observed , "
China
GPE
has already demonstrated that it could conquer poverty and the misery that generations of people have suffered . We hope that
China
GPE
becomes a model that the people of all
Middle Eastern
LOC
countries , including both
Israelis
NORP
and
Arabs
NORP
, can imitate on the road that we walk together heading towards the future . The
Chinese
NORP
edition of the book
" The New Middle East
WORK_OF_ART
" has already recently been published and distributed through
Xinhua Publishing
ORG
. -LRB- End
-RRB-
PERSON
Xinhua News Agency
ORG
,
Beijing
GPE
,
August 31st
DATE
This afternoon
TIME
, vice premier of
the State Council and Foreign Affairs
ORG
Minister
Qichen Qian
PERSON
met here individually with former
French
NORP
Prime Minister
Raymond Barre
PERSON
and vice Foreign Affairs Minister of
Paraguay
ORG
East Coast Republic
LOC
Hershy
Maria Carmel
PERSON
.
Qichen Qian
PERSON
told the
French
NORP
guest that
France
GPE
is the
first
ORDINAL
big western country to establish diplomatic relations with
China
GPE
, and that over
the past 30 years
DATE
since the establishment of diplomatic relations between
China
GPE
and
France
GPE
, the development of bilateral relations has been satisfactory overall despite some complications . He pointed out that regardless of whatever major changes happen in the international situation , maintaining friendly relations between the
two
CARDINAL
countries , namely
China
GPE
and
France
GPE
, will always be important for the peace , stability and development of the world . Both sides also exchanged views on relevant problems such as the security situation and economic development in
Asia
LOC
, the unification of
Europe
LOC
, etc .
Barre
PERSON
hoped that
Franco - Chinese
NORP
relations would achieve further development and strengthening , and also expressed that
France
GPE
, using its dominant position , was willing to more actively participate in the economic build - up of
China
GPE
. President of
the Foreign Affairs Institute
ORG
Shuqin Liu
PERSON
was also present at the meeting .
Barre
PERSON
and his entourage arrived in
Beijing
GPE
on
the 30th
DATE
at the invitation of
the Foreign Affairs Institute
ORG
. They will also go to
Shanghai
GPE
for a visit . In his meeting with the
Uruguayan
ORG
guests ,
Qichen Qian
PERSON
expressed welcome over the visit by vice Foreign Affairs Minister
Kamyao
PERSON
and the political consultations in progress .
He said that for
the more than six years
DATE
since the establishment of diplomatic relations between
China
GPE
and
Uruguay
GPE
, the friendly co-operative relations between the
two
CARDINAL
countries had continued its steady development .
Uruguay
PERSON
is one of the earliest countries in the
Latin American
NORP
region to develop trade with
China
GPE
, and bilateral trade development has been relatively rapid . Currently ,
China
GPE
is the largest buyer of
Uruguayan
ORG
wool . He hoped that henceforth , both countries ' co-operation and interaction in economics , trade and technology would further expand and develop .
Qichen Qian
PERSON
expressed his gratitude towards the support
Uruguay
GPE
has given to
China
GPE
in international affairs , and expressed commendation over
Uruguay
GPE
government 's position of persisting in their
one
CARDINAL
-
China
GPE
stance . He said ,
Latin America
LOC
was a continent filled with hopes , and possessed huge development potential . In
recent years
DATE
, the
Latin American
NORP
economy has steadily grown , which has provided good conditions for further strengthening economic and trade co-operation between
China
GPE
and
Latin America
LOC
. He said ,
China
GPE
puts great importance on strengthening friendly co-operative relations with countries of the southern common market , including
Uruguay
GPE
, and other
Latin American
NORP
countries .
Kamyao
PERSON
expressed ,
Uruguay
GPE
puts great importance on developing relations with
China
GPE
in areas such as economics , trade , science , technology , culture , etc . He said , in the early
70
DATE
's
China
GPE
recovered a legal seat in
the United Nations
ORG
, and this was a major development in the affairs of
United Nations
ORG
.
Uruguay highly commended
China
GPE
on playing an increasingly important role in international affairs , especially the active role taken in building a new political and economic world order . Uruguay resolutely supports the recovery of
China
GPE
's status as a signatory country of
GATT
ORG
, and believes that it will make active contributions in the future
World Trade Organization
ORG
.
This morning
TIME
,
Kamyao
ORG
represented the
Paraguay
ORG
government in presenting
China
GPE
's
Weaving Association
ORG
with
17 tons
QUANTITY
of wool for the purpose of scientific research by relevant
Chinese
NORP
departments , scientific research organizations and other high level institutes . Vice Foreign Affairs Minister
Huaqiu Liu
PERSON
held talks with
Kamyao
PERSON
here on
the 29th
DATE
. Both parties exchanged opinions in depth regarding further developing bilateral relations and also international and regional problems that were of common concern , and they achieved widespread agreement .
Kamyao
PERSON
and his entourage , were invited by
the Foreign Ministry
ORG
for a visit to
China
GPE
and arrived on
August 29th
DATE
to carry out political consultations between the
two
CARDINAL
countries ' foreign affair ministries . They will also go to
Hangzhou
GPE
for a visit . -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Guangzhou
GPE
,
September 1
DATE
, by wire -LRB- reporter
Xiaoguang Han
PERSON
-RRB-
Guangdong Province
GPE
, fully utilizing its geographical advantage of being in close proximity to
Hong Kong
GPE
and
Macao
GPE
and being located in the
Asian
NORP
tropics , is vigorously developing extroverted agriculture . According to statistics , in
recent years
DATE
, the export volume of
Guangdong Province 's
GPE
agricultural and secondary products and processed products has always been in the forefront in the nation .
Last year
DATE
, its foreign exchange income was up to
more than 2.1 billion US dollars
MONEY
, and in
the first half of this year
DATE
exports again had new growth . In the countryside of southern
Guangdong
GPE
, this reporter learned that vegetable plots have an abundance of green and lush western lettuce , western celery , western cauliflower ; fish ponds have an abundance of vigorous
Californian
NORP
perch , whitish pomfret ; while flower farmers take care of lovely western flowers such as
Dutch
NORP
tulips ,
Belgium
GPE
azalea , etc .
Guangdong
GPE
farmers who have tasted the sweetness of agriculture that earns foreign exchange are actively bringing in and carefully cultivating excellent , rare , famous and precious varieties . Various improved domestic and foreign varieties of flowers , fruits , trees , grasses , vegetables , fish , poultry , animals , etc. are successively settling down in
Lingnan
GPE
. According to
Guangdong
GPE
's
Department of Agriculture
ORG
statistics , since
the mid-80s
DATE
,
Guangdong
GPE
has attracted
more than 1100
CARDINAL
improved species of foreign animals and plants , among which
more than 300
CARDINAL
have been marketed to farmers . Various regions have introduced
more than 30,000
CARDINAL
sets of advanced processing equipment and technologies , and expanded agricultural product processing capacity . Improvement of the structure of the varieties strengthens the competitiveness of
Guangdong
GPE
's agricultural products in the international market , and economic benefits have also tremendously increased . In order to satisfy the requirements of the continuously expanding overseas markets , various areas of
Guangdong
GPE
have adjusted to local conditions and selected famous , special and improved varieties , and have built up
more than 2,000
CARDINAL
agricultural export merchandise production and processing bases .
In order to make up for deficiencies in investment funds ,
Guangdong Province
GPE
has tried every possible means to attract foreign capital . The entire province has actually utilized foreign funds of
nearly 1 billion US dollars
MONEY
, and has established a large number of extroverted agricultural "
three
CARDINAL
capital " enterprises which combine agriculture , industry , trade and technology and integrate manufacturing , supply and marketing , and through foreign merchants sales channels , it has also expanded its export of agricultural products . -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Shenyang
GPE
,
March 19
DATE
, by wire
Liaoning
GPE
, a large industrial province of
China
GPE
, in
the beginning of this year
DATE
, comprehensively increased import and export trade . In
the first two months of this year
DATE
, the total value of import and export trade reached
1.24 billion US dollars
MONEY
, increasing
6 %
PERCENT
over
the same period last year
DATE
. According to statistics , from
January to February of this year
DATE
, the total export volume of
Liaoning
GPE
achieved
1 billion US dollars
MONEY
, increasing by
4.7 percent
PERCENT
over
the same period last year
DATE
, including
780 million US dollars
MONEY
of local product export which was mainly finished products . The foreign trade export proportion of
Liaoning
GPE
's
three
CARDINAL
- capital enterprises has started to increase . In
January
DATE
and
February
DATE
, the export volume of
three
CARDINAL
- capital enterprises for the whole province reached
260 million US dollars
MONEY
, which was twice as much as that of
the same period last year
DATE
, and
12 percent
PERCENT
higher than the total export volume of the whole province in
the same period last year
DATE
.
At present ,
Liaoning Province
GPE
possesses
more than 100
CARDINAL
import and export companies varying in business and administration at the province , city , and county level . There are
more than 200
CARDINAL
large and medium - sized manufacturing enterprises with import and export authorization and
more than 1500
CARDINAL
foreign - invested enterprises doing import and export business .
Last year
DATE
, the total achieved import and export volume was
10.99 billion US dollars
MONEY
. -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Beijing
GPE
,
December 26th
DATE
, by reporter
Xidong Wang
PERSON
China
GPE
plans to formulate many new preferential policies to ensure positively , reasonably and effectively utilizing foreign investment and to improve the pattern of opening up to the outside world . A relevant department of
the State Planning Commission
ORG
presented that , in order to expand channels of utilizing foreign capital ,
China
GPE
will actively experiment with and gradually develop a variety of ways such as
BOT
ORG
, project financing and issuing stocks overseas , etc . It will expand co-operation with developed countries and the widely developing countries , expand fields for opening up to the outside world , and continue experiments utilizing foreign investment in the insurance industry and retail commerce industry . In industries such as mining resources development and retail , etc. new policies for utilizing foreign investment will be promoted .
Data provided by
the State Taxation Administration
ORG
show that , starting
next year
DATE
, foreign business investment
BOT
ORG
projects will continue to enjoy preferential taxation , and the scope of their preferential policies will include investment enterprises and individual investors engaged in
BOT
ORG
projects . A relevant
State Council Special Zone Office
ORG
director expressed that , in order to encourage foreign businessmen to carry out investment in the mid and western areas , foreign businessmen will be allowed , in the mid and western areas , to initiate projects in which
China
GPE
's industrial policy restricts foreign business investment but which can make use of manpower resources . Moreover ,
China
GPE
will encourage
Sino - foreign
NORP
joint investments to construct and operate public docks and berths , and will allow foreign businessmen investing exclusively to construct cargo owners ' wharves and their specialized waterways . With approval , foreign companies can establish
Sino - foreign
NORP
joint venture shipping companies in
China
GPE
, and foreign shipping companies investing exclusively can establish shipping service companies by following shipping agreements between the
two
CARDINAL
governments . According to statistics , up to now ,
China
GPE
has totally approved over
300,000
CARDINAL
foreign - invested enterprises , and has actually utilized foreign investment of
about 200 billion US dollars
MONEY
. The utilized foreign investment has accounted for
over 20 %
PERCENT
of the fixed assets investment of the whole society . According to analysis , due to promotion of enterprise reforms ,
China
GPE
's demand for foreign investment will grow accordingly , and industries invested in by foreign businessmen will also expand daily . New policies being successively issued show that
China
GPE
will actively lead the direction of foreign investment to reach the goal of reasonably utilizing foreign investment . For a future period of time ,
China
GPE
will encourage foreign businessmen to invest in new agricultural technology , comprehensive development of land resources , and such basic industries and pillar industries as water conservation , energy , transportation , important raw materials , machinery and electronics , mining , etc. and will encourage foreign businessmen to employ new high level technology to participate in the technical transformation of
China
GPE
's enterprises -LRB- End
-RRB-
PERSON
Xinhua News Agency
ORG
,
Changchun
GPE
,
December 16th
DATE
, by reporter
Changqing Zhou
PERSON
This year
DATE
,
the United Nations Development and Planning Office
ORG
held a
Tumen River Area International Tourism Conference
LOC
in
Jilin
GPE
,
China
GPE
, actively supporting projects such as
China
GPE
's
Changbai Mountain 's
LOC
ice and snow
winter
DATE
tourism , etc. , while at the same time , still providing funds for training international economic and trade talent here .
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization
ORG
recently implemented a thorough investigation into the current state of industrial projects in the
Tumen River
LOC
region , and made some suggestions about future industrial development projects in this area . They also invited some experts to implement an appraisal of the industrial projects put forward by related countries , and then after the appraisal , entered these projects into
the Industrial Development Organization 's
ORG
network to attract international business . International societies represented by
the United Nations Development and Planning Office
ORG
and
the Industrial Development Organization
ORG
have always given active support and effective promotion to the
Tumen River
LOC
region 's international cooperation and development program . The
Tumen River
LOC
development program , aiming at building up
the Tumen Delta
LOC
, where the
three
CARDINAL
countries of
China
GPE
,
Russia
GPE
and
North Korea
GPE
meet , into a cosmopolitan hub for the circulation of material and a center for economy and trade , was initially proposed by
Chinese
NORP
experts such as
Shishen Ding
PERSON
, etc . In
1991
DATE
,
the United Nations Development and Planning
ORG
decided to support it and announced it to the world . Since
the end of 1995
DATE
, when the program changed from the appraisal phase into the implementation phase , the
three
CARDINAL
countries :
China
GPE
,
Russia
GPE
and
North Korea
GPE
, have all implemented some infrastructure construction and activities for attracting business and investment , and have initially started bilateral and multilateral cooperation . Concerned countries and the international societies have also given support to this program .
For
several years
DATE
,
the United Nations Development and Planning Office
ORG
has , as always , supported the
Tumen River
LOC
development , and actively helped the
three
CARDINAL
countries :
China
GPE
,
Russia
GPE
and
North Korea
GPE
, to attract world business and to help implement feasibility studies for development projects . In
1995
DATE
and
1996
DATE
, with the help of
the United Nations Development and Planning Office
ORG
and
the Industrial Development Organization
ORG
,
China
GPE
and
North Korea
GPE
successively held the "
Tumen River
LOC
region investment and trade negotiation conference " , and both made relatively good achievements . In the near future , the
Russian
NORP
Tumen River Region Negotiation Conference will also be held in
Vladivostok
GPE
. Moreover ,
the Industrial Development Organization
ORG
has also entrusted
China
GPE
's
Northeast Teacher 's
ORG
University
ORG
, which has considerably researched the regional economy , to implement the preliminary investigation and research for analysis of the circulation of materials via the sea , land and air transportation system of the
Northeast Asia
LOC
region in
the next twenty years
DATE
.
The Tumen River Development Program
ORG
has also received strong support from governments and enterprises of many countries . For instance , the
Finnish
NORP
government has allocated
1 million US dollars
MONEY
as a subsidy for the preliminary work of
the Tumen River Development
ORG
;
Sweden
GPE
has put forth funding to do feasibility studies on the linking of the
Chinese
NORP
and
Mongolian
NORP
railways and the construction of a new
Northeast Asian
NORP
continental bridge . Moreover ,
the Japanese Import and Export Bank
ORG
has signed a contract with
Russia
GPE
to participate in the construction of
Russia
GPE
's
Zalubinau
FAC
port expansion project . At the invitation of concerned
Chinese
NORP
departments ,
Japan
GPE
has also made investigations into the comprehensive development of the regions along the railway from
China
GPE
's
Changchun
GPE
to
Huichun
GPE
.
Shuoren Jin
PERSON
, mayor of
Huichun
GPE
in
Jilin Province
GPE
, said : " International societies ' support and participation play an active and key role in
Huichun
GPE
's development and opening up .
The last few years
DATE
has been the period when
Huichun
ORG
's overall strength has been enhanced most remarkably , the appearance of urban and rural areas has changed most noticeably and the most real benefits have been gained by people . "
According to investigations ,
South Korean
NORP
enterprise circles have invested
nearly 100 million US dollars
MONEY
in
Huichun
GPE
, and foreign - invested enterprises have become an important pillar of the local economy . In order to promote the development of the
Tumen River
LOC
region ,
South Korea
GPE
donated
one million US dollars
MONEY
to establish the
Tumen River
LOC
development fund . Now ,
100,000 US dollars
MONEY
has been taken from the fund to make an evaluation of the environment in
China
GPE
's
Huichun
ORG
's frontier cooperative area in the expectation of providing consultation on the environmental aspect for the entry of large quantities of foreign capital into this area .
Zhezhu Quan
PERSON
, vice governor of
Jilin Province
GPE
who is in charge of the work of economy and trade , said : " International societies are welcome to join us for joint promotion of the
Tumen River
LOC
development undertaking , and the development of the regional economy so as to benefit the people of
Northeast Asia
LOC
. " -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Xi'an
GPE
,
December 30th
DATE
, by reporter
Lianye Zhang
PERSON
At
next Spring 's
DATE
" '
98
CARDINAL
negotiation conference on cooperation between east and
west China
LOC
and investment and trade " ,
Shaanxi Province
GPE
will promote public auctioning of a number of small state - owned enterprises to domestic and overseas traveling merchants . This province has currently drafted preferential policies to encourage state - owned enterprises , collective enterprises , privately - operated enterprises , individually - owned science and technology enterprises , foreign funded enterprises and average people from inside and outside the province using various methods to participate in
Shaanxi
GPE
's small state - owned enterprise reforms . It encourages small
State
ORG
- owned enterprises to cross industries , to cross regions and to cross ownership systems to look for co-operation partners and to proactively " become related by marriage " with dominant enterprises and to mutually merge .
Small state - owned enterprises of
Shaanxi
GPE
account for
over ninety percent
PERCENT
of the total number of state - owned enterprises , with fixed assets accounting for
more than thirty percent
PERCENT
, and the number of employees accounting for
over fifty percent
PERCENT
of the total number .
Shaanxi Province
GPE
states that
next year
DATE
it will basically give more freedom to provincial small state - owned enterprises to do business . Recently issued preferential policies include : appropriate preferences should be granted to enterprises with net assets and relatively good operations , where enterprise assets are sold to lawyers and average people ; for those implementing auctions , related taxes can be reduced or eliminated ; for those implementing shares cooperation system reforms , the state - owned net assets should be
first
ORDINAL
sold to employees of these enterprises . Income from transferring enterprise property rights should not only be used for settling employees , but also should be collected for re-investment . Through evaluation , enterprises whose assets and debt are quite balanced will implement a "
zero
CARDINAL
assets " sale and debt will go with the assets . If sold to employees , the form of these enterprise 's ownership system and employee status will be changed at the same time . If sold to a legal person or an ordinary person who accepts settling employees , the cost of buying seniority of state - owned employees , can be resolved by adopting the method of reducing or eliminating local taxes . If not settling employees , the cost of buying seniority will be paid from the sale income of the state - owned net assets according to the financial affiliation relationship . For enterprises whose assets do not offset debt and that are on the verge of bankruptcy , measures can be adopted for reorganization such as reorganizing enterprise management levels , changing methods of enterprise assets operation , and guiding the enterprise organization of structural adjustment , etc . For enterprises with no hope of revival , bankruptcy must resolutely be implemented according to law .
At bankruptcy , income from liquidating assets should be used
first
ORDINAL
to settle employees and insufficiencies should be made up for from the sale of real estate . Stock cooperatives are an important form of opening up small state - owned enterprises . Enterprises whose system is changed in this form can enjoy preferential policies , such as income taxes being returned when they exceed the base , temporarily not levying business tax on fixed assets , etc . For those implementing mergers , the merging party can enjoy policy - type loss subsidies of the merged enterprise , or the enterprise accumulation fund can also be used to compensate for loss , and insufficiencies can be listed as pre-tax expenditures . Non-bank debt of reformed enterprises can be transferred from creditor rights to stock ownership ; those having difficulty paying taxes , can implement " temporarily postponing old debt but not owing on new taxes , and suspending taxes and waiving fines , and paying off
year
DATE
by year " . -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Ningbo
GPE
,
February 7th
DATE
, by reporters
Hongwei Hu
PERSON
and
Jicheng Chai
PERSON
The Ningbo Bonded Area
ORG
, which occupies a total area of
2.3 square kilometers
QUANTITY
, has made substantial achievements after
3 years
DATE
of construction .
The Ningbo Bonded Area
ORG
is
one
CARDINAL
of the
13
CARDINAL
bonded areas in
China
GPE
and was established after approval by
the State Council
ORG
in
1992
DATE
.
At present , the various functions of the bonded area have fundamentally taken shaped , and its development level is high among all the bonded areas in
China
GPE
. According to statistics , by
the end of last year
DATE
, import and export trade of
the Ningbo Bonded Area
ORG
added up to
812 million US dollars
MONEY
. In
the last year alone
DATE
, import and export trade amounts going through customs of the bonded area reached
365 million US dollars
MONEY
. At present , there are
10
CARDINAL
bonded warehouses in the area , the storage area of which is
more than 80,000
CARDINAL
square meters . In
the last year alone
DATE
, the value of goods stored in the area reached
2.627 billion yuan RMB
MONEY
. With the adjustment of related special policies outside the bonded areas in
China
GPE
starting in
April of this year
DATE
, the advantage of the bonded area 's stability in certificate - free , duty - free and bonded policies is becoming more obvious . A great number of industrial processing projects come to the area successively from inside and outside the country . By
the end of last December
DATE
, the total number of enterprises in the bonded area was
1,614
CARDINAL
, of which
260
CARDINAL
were foreign - invested enterprises and the total investment reached
1.2 billion US dollars
MONEY
, with an actual utilized foreign investment of
113 million US dollars
MONEY
. Additionally , a large number of domestic enterprises coupled themselves with the international market through the bonded area . To complement the bonded area with operations ,
the Ningbo Bonded Area
ORG
has taken the lead in
China
GPE
in implementing trial
one
CARDINAL
- stop management and
one
CARDINAL
- time handling of direct , legal enterprise registration .
At the same time , the bonded zone is taking a firm hold in the construction of a network system for the information highway in the area so as to create favorable complementary conditions for the realization of modernized management . -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Guiyang
GPE
,
December 22nd
DATE
, by reporter
Fang Fang
PERSON
Guizhou Mao - tai Distillery
PERSON
, which is well - known in
China
GPE
and abroad , plans to implement a technology renovation project with an investment surpassing
400 million RMB
MONEY
to further increase the output of
Mao - tai
PERSON
in
the next three years
DATE
. In order to solve the enormous need for capital , the company is now striving to issue stock and to attempt more financing channels . The information was revealed
a few days ago
DATE
by
Keliang Ji
PERSON
, the board chairman of the
Guizhou Mao - tai Distillery -LRB-
PERSON
Group -RRB- Company of
China
GPE
.
Keliang Ji
PERSON
said this expansion project would increase the annual output capacity of
Mao
PERSON
- tai by
2,000 tons
QUANTITY
, reaching an output of
6,000 tons
QUANTITY
per year by
2000
DATE
.
Mao - tai
PERSON
, which is praised as
China
GPE
's " national alcoholic drink " , has a very long history , and is called
one
CARDINAL
of the world 's
three
CARDINAL
famous distilled spirits , the other
two
CARDINAL
being
French
NORP
Cognac and the
UK
GPE
's
Scotch
GPE
whiskey . Because the art of manufacturing
Mao - tai
PERSON
is complicated and its production cycle is long , the output of
Mao - tai
PERSON
is extremely limited .
The annual output only reached
1,200 tons
QUANTITY
in
1987
DATE
. In
recent years
DATE
, under the support of
the national Ministry of Finance
ORG
and
the Light Industry Headquarters
ORG
, the
Mao
PERSON
- tai Distillery invested
530 million yuan RMB
MONEY
to successively implement a
two
CARDINAL
- phase expansion and technology renovation . Currently , it has an annual production capacity of
4,000 tons
QUANTITY
. In
1997
DATE
, this plant made
over 4,400 tons
QUANTITY
of
Mao - tai
PERSON
; with sales income exceeding
500 million yuan RMB
MONEY
, and profit and taxes reaching
370 million RMB
MONEY
, both being the best levels in history .
Mao - tai
PERSON
, which is made in the
Chishui
PRODUCT
river valley area in the northern part of
Guizhou Province
GPE
in southwest
China
GPE
, is known for its extremely special fermentation technique . The water used comes from the
Chishui
ORG
river that flows over cinnabar quality soil and selectively uses such locally produced raw materials as sorghum , high quality wheat , etc. and is fermented during the period from the
Chinese
NORP
Dragon Boat Festival to the Double Ninth Festival . After a total of
10 months
DATE
fermentation , which requires adding material twice , distilling
7
CARDINAL
times , fermenting
8
CARDINAL
times , and braising and boiling
9
CARDINAL
times , the spirit is then put into specially made
earthen jars
PERSON
, sealed and stored for over
three years
DATE
. Finally , it is finished by veteran brewers carefully mixing additives . What makes
Mao - tai
PERSON
even more famous is that
first
ORDINAL
generation leaders of new
China
GPE
had used it to entertain distinguished guests such as former president
Nixon
PERSON
of the
US
GPE
,
Tanaka Kakuei
PERSON
, former prime minister of
Japan
GPE
, etc .
Xinhua News Agency
ORG
,
Washington
GPE
,
DC
GPE
,
April 20
DATE
, by wire -LRB- reporter
Qian Ying
PERSON
-RRB- The
Chinese
NORP
branch of
the American Chamber of Commerce
ORG
recently dispatched a delegation made up of
twenty - five
CARDINAL
people launching a
month
DATE
- long lobbying campaign in
Washington
GPE
directed at
congress
ORG
and
the White House
ORG
, asking them to continue to extend granting
China
GPE
most - favored - nation trading status .
The Chamber of Commerce
ORG
delegates participating in this lobbying campaign come from many well - known in
Washington
GPE
, large
American
NORP
companies , such as
Dow Jones
ORG
,
AT&T
ORG
,
IBM
ORG
,
Boeing
ORG
,
McDonald Douglas
ORG
,
General Electric
ORG
,
Westinghouse
ORG
,
Ford
ORG
, and the Xian Ni
Lei De Group
ORG
, etc . They split into
five
CARDINAL
groups and altogether visited
about 150
CARDINAL
members of
congress
ORG
, congressional aides , and government officials , using their experience of investing in and managing enterprises in
China
GPE
to explain the necessity of extending giving
China
GPE
most - favored - nation trading status . With the once - a - year deliberations by the
American
NORP
administration and
congress
ORG
concerning the question of
China
GPE
's most - favored - nation trading status again approaching ,
American
NORP
businesses in
Washington
GPE
are universally concerned that the disputes among
America
GPE
's political parties in this big election year could make this question even more complicated , hence the organization of groups to carry out a lobbying campaign directed at them that is organized and is planned .
Zhen Wang
PERSON
, a businessman of
Chinese
NORP
descent who is representing the
Guangzhou
GPE
chapter of
the American Chamber of Commerce
ORG
and the Xian Ni
Lei De Group
ORG
and is participating in the lobbying team , said to this reporter that , as a follow - up action to this lobbying effort , he prepared to mobilize
tens of thousands
CARDINAL
of distributors who belong to the company to write to their local congressional representatives to support extending
China
GPE
's most - favored - nation trading status . The head of the
Guangdong
GPE
branch of
the American Chamber of Commerce
ORG
, the attorney
Yonghua Kang
PERSON
, said the
Clinton
PERSON
administration had already demonstrated that it wanted to extend
China
GPE
's most - favored - nation trading status and because of this , the focus of this round of lobbying was those members of
congress
ORG
who are more conservative . -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Lanzhou
GPE
,
February 15
DATE
, by wire -LRB- reporter
Zhi Qu -RRB-
PERSON
Currently , foreign funded enterprises in
Gansu Province
GPE
no longer worry about investment risk . To ensure that the opening up to the outside world can be implemented smoothly , during the "
eighth
ORDINAL
five - year
DATE
plan " period -LRB-
1991 to 1995
DATE
-RRB-
GPE
,
Gansu Province 's
GPE
foreign affairs insurance industry developed rapidly , and it has already provided an accumulated sum of
61.1 billion yuan
MONEY
in terms of risk safeguard . Insurance coverages include the
four
CARDINAL
large categories of property , liability , credit and life , with
more than sixty
CARDINAL
primary and secondary risk types . According to presentations from concerned departments in
Gansu Province
GPE
, since the "
eighth
ORDINAL
five - year
DATE
plan " ,
Gansu Province
GPE
has used foreign investments to vigorously develop . On the basis of meeting the needs of economic development and overseas investors , the
Gansu
GPE
provincial branch of
the People 's Insurance Company of China Group
ORG
caters to foreign businessmen 's requirements , providing whole - process insurance which extends from the import of equipment to its transportation , and from installation to the formation of fixed assets , thus helping foreign businessmen to set their minds at ease . Conventional insurance lines such as transportation insurance , property insurance , automobile insurance , etc. are specially offered to foreign funded enterprises such as
the Zhengda Company
ORG
and
the Huaxing Aluminum Firm
LAW
, etc. and new types of insurance such as employer liability insurance , investment insurance , and profit - loss insurance , etc. are also offered at the appropriate time , satisfying the investment needs of foreign businessmen , bringing the insurance rate of the foreign business invested enterprises to
more than 90 percent
PERCENT
. According to statistics , during the "
eighth
ORDINAL
five - year
DATE
plan " period , the amount of risk
People 's Insurance Co.
ORG
took up for the import and export trade of
Gansu Province
GPE
reached
771 million yuan
MONEY
, and paid out
13.855 million yuan
MONEY
as indemnity , effectively promoting the development of
Gansu Province 's
GPE
import and export trade . The " redirection of the Da river to
Shaanxi
GPE
" project mortgaged by
the World Bank
ORG
is the longest gravity - irrigation water conservancy project in the whole country .
People 's Insurance Co.
ORG
in
Gansu Province
GPE
provided all kinds of risk insurance to
thirteen
CARDINAL
of the joint venture contractors and had indemnity reaching
693 million yuan
MONEY
. They also provided
190 million US dollars
MONEY
of installation insurance for a national key project :
the Lanhua Chemical Fertilizer Plant
ORG
reform and expansion project .
Aiming at the development requirements of the
Gansu
GPE
tourism industry ,
People 's Insurance Co.
ORG
actively promotes travel insurance for overseas tourists , and took the lead at home in providing insurance for individual overseas tourists , which made sure that all those who came sightseeing in
Gansu Province
GPE
during the "
eighth
ORDINAL
five - year
DATE
plan " period had insurance .
Gansu Province
GPE
also actively explored high risk business . During the "
eighth
ORDINAL
five - year
DATE
plan " period , it participated in the co-insurance of satellite launching , with a shared risk amount reaching
10 million yuan
MONEY
, and , paying
5 million yuan
MONEY
in indemnity , became the northwest 's
first
ORDINAL
company to participate in the aerospace industry . At the same time , it actively expanded its insurance business in the overseas market , providing
nearly 30 million US dollars
MONEY
in comprehensive insurance for construction engineering to
the Zimbabwe Highway
ORG
project that was bid on by an international company in the province ; providing liability insurance of
13 million US dollars
MONEY
for
the overseas department of
ORG
the Lanzhou Petrochemical Machinery Factory
ORG
and
the Singapore Oil Drilling Platform
ORG
; providing related forms of insurance for
Gansu Province 's
GPE
Overseas Economic and Trade Negotiation Association and for laborers exported overseas ; and also providing complementary insurance services for the overseas business of
the Gansu Province Thermoelectric Company
ORG
. -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Tianjin
GPE
,
January 10
DATE
, by wire -LRB- reporter
Xuejie Man
PERSON
and correspondent
Hong Zhang
PERSON
-RRB- This reporter learned from
the Tianjin Port Bonded Area
ORG
that in
1997
DATE
the bonded area comprehensively surpassed quotas on various economic indicators with an average growth rate reaching
more than 70 %
PERCENT
, ranking the
first
ORDINAL
among
China
GPE
's bonded areas . According to statistics ,
last year
DATE
,
the Tianjin Port Bonded Area
ORG
completed a total amount of
850 million US dollars
MONEY
in investment agreements , increasing by
72 %
PERCENT
over
the same period of the previous year
DATE
, with total foreign investment agreements of
700 million US dollars
MONEY
, increasing by
75 %
PERCENT
over
the same period of the previous year
DATE
. It achieved a total volume of
4 billion US dollars
MONEY
of goods going into and out of the area , increasing by
83 %
PERCENT
over
the same period of the previous year
DATE
, with a total amount of
1 billion US dollars
MONEY
from imports and exports .
All these were the highest levels in history . Since being put into operation
five years ago
DATE
,
the Tianjin Port Bonded Area
ORG
has completed the construction of
China
GPE
's
first
ORDINAL
goods distribution center , functions like a customs port , opened up the special use the railway line from
the Tianjin Port Bonded Area
ORG
passing
Xi'an
GPE
and
Lanzhou
GPE
to arrive at
Xinjiang
GPE
's Allah Mountain pass customs port , established a number of large - scale materials circulation distribution and supply centers integrating storage , transportation and sales , opened multiple railway and international container joint - operations with a
monthly
DATE
loading and unloading capacity reaching
6,000
CARDINAL
standard containers . It has built up an installation capacity of
7,000
CARDINAL
sets of program - controlled telephones , had a power supply capacity of
25,000
CARDINAL
kilovolts , and a
daily
DATE
water supply capacity of
10,000 tons
QUANTITY
. Moreover , the bonded area has implemented a series of preferential policies towards enterprises entering the area : it has established a system of " no custom accounting " and established manuals and management ; for enterprises engaged in international trade and storage processing in the area , the equipment and materials needed are duty free , and domestic trade continuing to sell out of the bonded area is regarded as export , for which customs provides tax refunds , etc . With the
daily
DATE
improvement of
the Tianjin Port Bonded Area 's
ORG
investment environment , foreign businessmen coming to invest are increasing
daily
DATE
.
Last year
DATE
, there were
thirteen
CARDINAL
large projects of
over 20 million yuan
MONEY
alone . CALTEX and
Caterpillar
ORG
from the
US
GPE
,
Japan
GPE
's
Itochu
GPE
,
South Korea 's
GPE
Daewoo
ORG
and
the New World Consortium
ORG
from
Hong Kong
GPE
had been successively entering the zone to invest and open business . While foreign investments were flocking in large numbers ,
twenty
CARDINAL
large and medium - sized state - owned enterprises also entered and settled themselves in the zone
last year
DATE
, investing a total of
nearly 200 million US dollars
MONEY
. According to statistics , in
the past five years
DATE
,
Tianjin Bonded Area
ORG
has attracted a total of over
3000
CARDINAL
enterprises from
73
CARDINAL
countries and regions all over the world and
25
CARDINAL
domestic provinces , cities and municipalities to invest , reaching a total agreed investment value of
more than 3 billion US dollars
MONEY
and a total agreed foreign investment reaching
more than 2 billion US dollars
MONEY
.
Xinhua News Agency
ORG
,
Shanghai
GPE
,
Dec. 20th
DATE
, by reporter
Yu Wu
PERSON
From
January to November of this year
DATE
, the
Shanghai
GPE
's total foreign trade export volume for
the year
DATE
reached
22.02 billion US dollars
MONEY
, increasing by
73 %
PERCENT
compared with
1993
DATE
. This reporter learned from the municipal foreign economy and trade committee that in
the past 5 years
DATE
, through foreign trade system reform and implementing a " big foreign trade " strategy ,
Shanghai
GPE
's total import and export volume is steadily increasing at
about 14 %
PERCENT
per year , and its foreign trade has entered its fastest period of development in history .
Shanghai
GPE
estimates that this
year
DATE
's value of exports could exceed
14.5 billion US dollars
MONEY
, among which finished industrial products account for
93.1 %
PERCENT
, having increased
4.1 %
PERCENT
over
1993
DATE
. Mechanical and electronic products account for
31.5 %
PERCENT
of the total export value , up from
17.9 %
PERCENT
of
5 years ago
DATE
. Currently ,
Shanghai
GPE
has established trade contacts with
205
CARDINAL
countries and regions , and
Southeast Asia
LOC
,
Oceania
LOC
,
Latin America
LOC
,
the Middle East
LOC
and
South Africa
GPE
have become new markets opened up by
Shanghai
GPE
. According to
Xiaoming Zhu
PERSON
, director of
the Shanghai Foreign Economic and Trade Committee
ORG
,
Shanghai
GPE
has sped up implementing a business strategy of diversity in foreign trade enterprises to meet the requirements of national policy . This gradually changes the entire city 's
725
CARDINAL
foreign trade enterprises of various kinds into market economic principles that autonomously manage business and are responsible for their own profits and losses . By such economic means as merging , holding stocks , sharing stocks , etc. , foreign trade group companies such as
Oriental International
ORG
,
Lansheng
GPE
, and those in foreign economy , light industry , machinery and livestock production , etc. have been successively organized , raising the scale of operations . Now ,
Shanghai
GPE
has formed
6
CARDINAL
export forces : foreign trade , industrial trade , self - management enterprises , enterprises subordinate to central government departments and enterprises in
Shanghai
GPE
invested by other provinces and cities , and foreign investment enterprises .
Besides ,
Shanghai
GPE
maintains the trinity of harmonious development : the goods trade , technology trade and services trade , while implementing the " Dragon 's head program " , and optimizing its export goods structure . It takes full advantage of the policy for the new
Pudong
GPE
region to breed new growth of foreign trade export . According to estimates ,
Shanghai
GPE
's technology export transaction value could reach
650 million US dollars
MONEY
this year
DATE
, which is
3.53
CARDINAL
times that of
1993
DATE
. The technology trade and the service trade account for
about 14 %
PERCENT
of total exports .
80
CARDINAL
types of " Dragon 's head merchandise " such as clothing , textile products , vessels , steel , electronic computers , household electrical appliances , containers , etc. have developed quickly and account for
more than half
CARDINAL
of the entire city 's export volume . From
January to November
DATE
, the new
Pudong
GPE
region 's foreign trade export volume was
2.8 billion US dollars
MONEY
, accounting for
1/5
CARDINAL
of the entire city 's export volume . It is reported that in
the past 5 years
DATE
,
Shanghai
GPE
, through such methods as actively purchasing export goods from other provinces and cities and by holding activities such as
the East China Export Goods Trade Fair
ORG
, etc. , has strengthened its influence as a port city on the entire country . At the same time , it develops multinational operations and vigorously opens up diversified markets . According to the latest statistics ,
Shanghai
GPE
has founded
218
CARDINAL
trade - oriented companies and organizations abroad , organized
6
CARDINAL
regional overseas group companies , and it has approved overseas non-trade enterprises reaching
260
CARDINAL
with a total investment of
200 million US dollars
MONEY
. The business of
Shanghai
GPE
in foreign engineering contracts is also developing quickly .
This year
DATE
,
586
CARDINAL
new foreign engineering contracting and labor contracts have been signed with contracted funds of
265 million US dollars
MONEY
. -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
, the
UN
ORG
,
February 13th
DATE
, Today ,
Peilice Dekuliar
ORG
, the
UN
ORG
Secretary - General , expressed grief at the multi-national forces air striking
Baghdad
GPE
resulting in civilians deaths . Julileah , spokesman for the Secretary - General said in a statement that
Peilice Dekuliar
ORG
felt deep grief that so many civilians in
Iraq
GPE
had died in the air attack . According to a news report on
February 14th
DATE
by
Xinhua News Agency
ORG
from
Beijing
GPE
, when the multi-national forces carried out an air attack on
Baghdad
GPE
on
the 13th
DATE
,
hundreds
CARDINAL
of civilians were killed in the bombing . World public opinion has reacted strongly to the event . Officials in
the Iraqi Department of Defense
ORG
said that the
two
CARDINAL
missiles or bomb shells dropped by planes of the multi-national forces on
the 13th
DATE
at
4 O'clock in the morning
TIME
local time hit a large sized underground bomb shelter and ,
at least 500
CARDINAL
civilians hiding inside were killed ,
more than half
CARDINAL
of whom were women and children . The
Tunisian
NORP
government thinks that this bombing again shows that the activity of the multi-national forces has exceeded authorized limits set by
the United Nations Security Council
ORG
decision .
Tunisia
GPE
has again appealed to international conscience to take action , to stop the blood and end the destructive war , and create conditions for a peaceful settlement of the conflict .
Ashitaer
GPE
, the
UN
ORG
representative of
Yemen
GPE
strongly condemned this incident and asked
the United Nations Security Council
ORG
to be responsible for the passed resolution No.
678
CARDINAL
which permits military actions against
Iraq
GPE
. He said that no one feels this " ferocious and inexcusable " bombing is just . In
Amman
GPE
, capital of
Jordan
GPE
,
thousands
CARDINAL
of angry people paraded and demonstrated in front of the
US
GPE
embassy , objecting to the multi-national forces bombing and killing innocent civilians in
Baghdad
GPE
.
Xinhua News Agency
ORG
,
Jinan
GPE
,
January 18th
DATE
, by reporter
Xueqing Dong
PERSON
Mingquan Zhang , vice director of
Shandong Province 's
GPE
Foreign Economy and Trade Committee
ORG
, said that in
1997
DATE
, the quality and level of
Shandong
GPE
's utilizing foreign capital had further improved .
Last year
DATE
, although there was a drop in the quantity and the contract amount of recently approved projects utilizing foreign capital in
Shandong Province
GPE
, foreign capital actually utilized maintained growth , reaching
over 4.2 billion US dollars
MONEY
, and increasing
more than 17 %
PERCENT
compared with
the previous year
DATE
. Of this amount , foreign merchants ' investment actually realized was over
3 billion US dollars
MONEY
, increasing
9 %
PERCENT
compared with the same period
the previous year
DATE
. In
the whole year
DATE
, the enterprises that were newly approved and that were invested in by foreign merchants neared
1,600
CARDINAL
, and the accumulated total already has reached
over 20,000
CARDINAL
.
The momentum of multinational companies investing in
Shandong
GPE
has not decreased . After such multi-national companies as
Dupont
ORG
,
HP
ORG
,
Siemens
ORG
,
Panasonic
ORG
,
Daewoo
ORG
, etc. successively invested in
Shandong
GPE
,
ten
CARDINAL
multinational companies such as
America
GPE
's
Chevron
ORG
and
Eton
GPE
,
France
GPE
's
Elf , Shenggeban
ORG
and
the French Electric Company
ORG
,
Germany
GPE
's
Deutsch
GPE
,
UK
GPE
's
Imperial Chemicals
ORG
, etc. have come to invest in
Shandong
GPE
for the
first
ORDINAL
time . By
the end of last year
DATE
, multinational companies coming to invest in
Shandong
GPE
were
over one hundred
CARDINAL
, among which
26
CARDINAL
were ranked the top
100
CARDINAL
in the world . These multinational companies ' investment projects are large in scale , high in technology , and strong in their industrial promotion . New breakthroughs were achieved in
Shandong
GPE
's methods of utilizing foreign capital . Since
Qingdao
PERSON
Beer and
Shandong Huaneng
GPE
succeeded in respectively issuing H - shares and N - shares in
Hong Kong
GPE
and the
US
GPE
,
last year
DATE
,
5
CARDINAL
more share - holding companies , such as
Shandong
GPE
's
Chenmin Paper Manufacturing Group
ORG
,
Jinan
GPE
's
Qingqi Group
ORG
,
Yantai
PERSON
's
Zhangyu Group
ORG
,
Xinhua
ORG
's
Pharmacy Group
ORG
and
Lutai
PERSON
's
Textile Group
ORG
, etc. also entered the market issuing foreign capital shares , altogether attracting
265 million US dollars
MONEY
of foreign capital . By
the end of last year
DATE
,
seven
CARDINAL
enterprises in
Shandong Province
GPE
issued H - shares , N - shares or B - shares , altogether attracting over
700 million US dollars
MONEY
of foreign capital . New progress has also been made in utilizing foreign capital for infrastructure , foundation industries and new high level technology projects . In the area of energy ,
Shandong
GPE
's
China Power Generation Company , Ltd.
ORG
obtained the
State
ORG
's approval . With a total project investment of
nearly 2.3 billion US dollars
MONEY
and over
1 billion US dollars
MONEY
of contracted foreign capital , it is currently
Shandong Province 's
GPE
largest project utilizing foreign capital .
In agriculture , the integrated agricultural development project invested in by
Australia
GPE
's
Southern Australia
ORG
--
Shandong
GPE
Stock - holding
Company , Ltd.
ORG
in the
Yellow River
LOC
delta region has a total investment of
nearly 30 million US dollars
MONEY
and over
10 million US dollars
MONEY
of contracted foreign capital . It is currently
Shandong
GPE
's largest integrated agricultural development project . In the area of new high level technology , the investment projects of world famous multinational companies such as the
US
GPE
's
Eton
GPE
,
Germany
GPE
's
Deutsch
ORG
, the
UK
GPE
's
Imperial Chemicals
ORG
, etc. all have
first
ORDINAL
- class international levels of technology . These projects powerfully bring about optimization and improvement of
Shandong Province 's
GPE
industrial structure . In infrastructure , a number of expressway projects have been formally signed with the outside , and a number of municipal public infrastructure merchant - invitation projects have also been announced overseas , signifying the complete start of utilizing foreign capital in the areas of
Shandong
GPE
's infrastructure . The economic development district has become a hotspot for attracting foreign merchant investment .
Last year
DATE
,
Shandong
GPE
's various types of economic development districts recently approved over
1480
DATE
projects utilizing foreign capital , accounting for
more than
PERCENT
24 % of the total of the entire province .
Over 900 million US dollars
MONEY
of foreign capital was actually utilized , increasing
nearly 40 %
PERCENT
compared with the same period
the previous year
DATE
. The total industrial output completed by enterprises within the district for
the year
DATE
was over
47 billion US dollars
MONEY
, increasing by
nearly 80 %
PERCENT
compared with
the previous year
DATE
, and had
nearly 1.7 billion US dollars
MONEY
of foreign export currency , increasing by
31 %
PERCENT
compared with the same period
the previous year
DATE
. As a new point of growth of
Shandong
GPE
's open economy , the economic development district is showing development vitality that grows stronger daily .
Last year
DATE
, the total output of
Shandong Province
GPE
reached
over 19.7 billion US dollars
MONEY
, increasing by over
10 %
PERCENT
compared with
the previous year
DATE
. Among this , exports broke through
13 billion US dollars
MONEY
, increasing by
25 %
PERCENT
compared with the same period
the previous year
DATE
. Export values ranked
fourth
ORDINAL
in the nation , and the growth rate ranked
second
ORDINAL
among
China
GPE
's main coastal provinces and cities . -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Beijing
GPE
,
January 5th
DATE
, by reporter
Huangbiao He
PERSON
The Wangma Computer Company
ORG
, a high science and technology enterprise in
Beijing
GPE
's
Zhongguan
GPE
village , held a press conference in
the Great Hall Of the People
FAC
on
January 4th
DATE
and announced : to meet urgent demands for office automation of all
Party
ORG
departments , the government and the army , it was decided to " open " a whole set of top - quality products of
Wangma Software
PERSON
, which can profit
more than one million yuan
CARDINAL
, to the home , all in the way to non-encoded floppy disks , exempting technical fees , so that all domestic computer users can copy and use .
The Wangma Computer Company
ORG
was named for the Wubi font , the coding method of
Chinese
NORP
characters invented by the famous computer expert
- Yongmin Wang
PERSON
. This simple , convenient and efficient input method covers
more than 85 %
PERCENT
of the nation 's computer users , and has become the input technology of
Chinese
NORP
characters which dominates the leading position in our nation . But , with the rapid development of the computer business , more and more computer users successively come " line up to register " and purchase
Wubi
PERSON
's latest edition and the operating system using the
Wangma
NORP
Chinese
NORP
characters .
In order to benefit society ,
the Wangma Computer Company
ORG
determinedly gave up an opportunity that would have earned big money by dedicating unencoded floppy disks to users , allowing them to copy by themselves . Leaders , experts and users attending the conference gave a very high appraisal of the decision of
the Wangma Computer Company
ORG
to selflessly contribute . -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Beijing
GPE
,
January 3rd
DATE
In order to perfect the management of international commercial loans ,
the National Foreign Exchange Bureau
ORG
decided to implement a new method of managing international commercial loans borrowed by domestic institutions from
January 1st this year
DATE
. According to regulations by
the National Foreign Exchange Management Bureau
ORG
, international commercial loans indicate loans raised and borrowed by domestic institutions from financial institutions , enterprises , individual or other economic organizations abroad , and from foreign - funded financial institutions within
China
GPE
's border , whose contractual repayment obligations are in foreign currency . Export credits , international financing leaseholds , compensation trades with foreign exchange repayment methods , overseas institution 's and individual 's foreign exchange deposits -LRB- excluding foreign exchange deposits in banks approved for offshore operations
-RRB-
PERSON
, project financing , financing under trade projects over
90 days
DATE
and other forms of foreign exchange loans will all be treated and managed as international commercial loans . According to regulations ,
the People 's Bank of China
ORG
is the approving authority for international commercial loans borrowed by domestic institutions ,
the People 's Bank of China
ORG
has authorized
the National Foreign Exchange Management Bureau
ORG
to be specifically responsible for the approval , supervision and management of commercial loans by domestic institutions . All international commercial loans borrowed by domestic institutions should be approved by
the National Foreign Exchange Management Bureau
ORG
.
International business loans that have not been approved but were signed on their own authority will not be valid ,
the Foreign Exchange Management Bureau
ORG
will not process the registration of foreign debts , banks are not allowed to open exclusive foreign debt accounts for them , loan principals and interests are not to be remitted out on their own authority .
The National Foreign Exchange Management Bureau
ORG
clearly stipulated in the new method that , domestic institutions borrowing international commercial loans externally are only limited to :
China
GPE
- capital financial institutions approved by
the Foreign Exchange Management Bureau
ORG
to operate foreign exchange loan business ; juridical people of non-financial corporations approved by
the State Department 's Authorization Department
ORG
. Juridical people of non-financial institutions who borrow international commercial loans directly must possess these several conditions , that is , have continual profits for
the last three years
DATE
, have import and export business permission , belong to a national encouraged industry ; possess a complete financial management system ; must have a ratio of net assets to total assets not lower than
15 %
PERCENT
for juridical people of trade - type non-financial corporations , must have ratios of net assets to total assets not lower than
30 %
PERCENT
for juridical people of non trade - type non-financial corporations ; must have a total sum of international business loans borrowed and foreign guarantee surpluses not exceeding
50 %
PERCENT
of net asset 's equivalent foreign exchange worth ; must have total of foreign exchange loan and foreign exchange guarantee surplus not exceeding the amount of exchange created in
the previous year
DATE
. -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Beijing
GPE
,
March 9th
DATE
The statistics from
the General Administration of Customs
ORG
show that ,
last year
DATE
,
China
GPE
's trade with
Japan
GPE
continued increasing , the gross value of imports and exports reached
60.06 billion US dollars
MONEY
,
4.5 %
PERCENT
higher than that of
last year
DATE
, and accounted for
20.7 %
PERCENT
of
China
GPE
's gross value of foreign trade . Of which , exports were
30.88 billion US dollars
MONEY
, and imports were
29.18 billion US dollars
MONEY
. The trade surplus against
Japan
GPE
was
1.7 billion US dollars
MONEY
.
Japan
GPE
has , for
four years
DATE
, successively ranked
first
ORDINAL
place among
China
GPE
's foreign trade partners , and the bilateral trade volume
last year
DATE
was
17.22 billion US dollars
MONEY
higher than that of
China
GPE
and the
US
GPE
,
China
GPE
's
second
ORDINAL
largest trade partner .
According to presentations , the dependency of
China
GPE
's exported products on the
Japanese
NORP
market has been increasing
annually
DATE
, but the proportion of imported products in the total import volume from
Japan
GPE
has fluctuated irregularly ; the development of various trade methods was not balanced , general trade has decreased , processing trade has increased ; while the growth of primary product trade was considerably fast .
Last year
DATE
, exports of primary products to
Japan
GPE
were
8 billion US dollars
MONEY
,
10.9 %
PERCENT
higher than that of
the previous year
DATE
, and imports of primary products from
Japan
GPE
were
1 billion US dollars
MONEY
, a
4.4 %
PERCENT
growth . The trade of foreign - invested enterprises with
Japan
GPE
increased rapidly .
Last year
DATE
, the exports of foreign - invested enterprises to
Japan
GPE
were
14.9 billion US dollars
MONEY
, up
35.4 %
PERCENT
, and accounted for
48 %
PERCENT
of
China
GPE
's exports to
Japan
GPE
; imports were
19.5 billion US dollars
MONEY
, up
14.7 %
PERCENT
, and accounted for
67 %
PERCENT
of
China
GPE
's total import value from
Japan
GPE
. -LRB- End
-RRB-
PERSON
In
1997
DATE
,
Mexico
GPE
's total amount of foreign trade broke through
220 billion US dollars
MONEY
, which created a new historical record . However , in reviewing
Mexico
GPE
's foreign trade situation
this year
DATE
, it might be appropriate to say that it is between joy and sorrow . The joy lies in that the total amount of foreign trade still maintains a strong growth momentum , and has realized trade surpluses for
the third year in a row
DATE
, whereas the sorrow is that the amount of trade surplus has sharply reversed , and
this year
DATE
, a relatively large deficit may appear . According to official journals published recently by
Mexico
GPE
's
Treasury Department
ORG
,
Mexico
GPE
's foreign trade in
1997
DATE
continued to grow rapidly , the total amount of imports and exports reached
220.178 billion US dollars
MONEY
,
18.85 %
PERCENT
higher than that of
the previous year
DATE
, and within that the amount of exports was
110.380 billion US dollars
MONEY
, the amount of imports was
109.798 billion US dollars
MONEY
,
15 %
PERCENT
and
22.7 %
PERCENT
higher than
1996
DATE
, respectively .
The trade surplus was
582 million US dollars
MONEY
. Foreign trade occupies a pivotal position in
Mexico
GPE
's economy . At present , exports account for
more than 30 %
PERCENT
of its GDP , which is one of the primary economic growth forces . After the outbreak of
Mexico
GPE
's financial crisis in
1994
DATE
,
Mexico
GPE
's currency , the peso was greatly devalued , thus greatly strengthening
Mexico
GPE
's export competitiveness . In
the last several years
DATE
, the government has been vigorously supporting exports , and exports grew rapidly . In
1995
DATE
, the situation of successive foreign trade deficit reversed , and up to now , has maintained trade surpluses for
three years in a row
DATE
. However , in
the past three years
DATE
,
Mexico
GPE
's foreign trade surplus showed a substantial degradation :
7.889 billion US dollars
MONEY
in
1995
DATE
,
6.424 billion US dollars
MONEY
in
1996
DATE
, and
only 582 million US dollars
MONEY
last year
DATE
. Especially deserving to be pointed out is that , after the
first
ORDINAL
monthly
DATE
deficit in
July last year
DATE
, the rest of
the year
DATE
saw successive
monthly
DATE
deficits with the amounts of deficit almost doubling , roaring from
20 million US dollars
MONEY
in
July
DATE
to
722 million US dollars
MONEY
in
December
DATE
, reducing the
1997
DATE
annual
DATE
accumulative trade surplus amount to a trivial number . Local economic analysts felt that the trade deficit in
the second half of last year
DATE
was mainly due to an overly high import growth rate , which is even higher than that of exports . In
the second half of last year
DATE
, the average growth rate of imports was
6 % to 7 %
PERCENT
higher than that of exports .
Among import sectors , swift growth comes mainly from imports of consumer products and capital goods ,
39.9 %
PERCENT
and
38.2 %
PERCENT
higher than that of
1996
DATE
respectively . The growth of imports of semi-finished products was up by
18.8 %
PERCENT
.
Secondly
ORDINAL
, the overly high valuation of the peso is also an indispensable factor . An overly high peso exchange rate stimulated imports , but hindered exports . It is commonly known that in
1994
DATE
, before the outbreak of the financial crisis , the trade deficit was once as high as more than
18 billion US dollars
MONEY
. The huge trade deficit was
one
CARDINAL
of the internal reasons that triggered this crisis . Hence , the trade situation
last year
DATE
has caused extreme concern among people from economic circles , who even predicted that in
1998
DATE
, foreign trade deficit would revive . They pointed out that ,
this year
DATE
, except for an overly high peso exchange rate , exports would also face some new unfavorable factors . For instance ,
Asian
NORP
currency devaluation will decrease export competitiveness , and the fall of oil price will significantly reduce oil revenues . Under these circumstances , if the import growth momentum can not be restrained ,
this year
DATE
, a trade deficit of
4
CARDINAL
to
5 billion US dollars
MONEY
may appear .
-LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Macau
GPE
,
April 3rd
DATE
, by reporters
Zhigen Wang
PERSON
and
Yuming Che Xuming Zhang
PERSON
, Chairman of
the Chinese Enterprise Association
ORG
in
Macau
GPE
said that , at present there were
more than 200
CARDINAL
enterprises operating with
Chinese
NORP
capital in
Macau
GPE
and that the total value of assets is
more than 90 billion
MONEY
patacas .
Chinese
NORP
capital enterprises have become the biggest foreign investors in
Macau
GPE
.
Xuming Zhang
PERSON
recently said at the joint meeting for the
fifth
ORDINAL
anniversary of the establishment of
the Chinese Enterprise Association
ORG
in
Macau
GPE
, that
Macau
GPE
's inland investment enterprises , from small to large and from weak to strong , have developed into an important force in
Macau
GPE
's economic domain . They have made important contributions to the prosperity and stability of
Macau
GPE
. According to presentations , these enterprises have extensively taken part in many areas of operating activities such as trade , industry , finance , insurance , tourism , catering , traffic and transportation , construction , real estate , etc. in
Macau
GPE
. Among these , the proportion that
Chinese
NORP
capital accounts for in financial insurance has reached
50 %
PERCENT
. It accounts for from
50 % to 70 %
PERCENT
of the tourism industry , accounts for
30 %
PERCENT
of imports and exports , and accounts for
70 %
PERCENT
of real estate .
Xuming Zhang
PERSON
expressed that enterprises operating with
Chinese
NORP
capital in
Macau
GPE
will continue to take the direction of
Xiaoping Deng 's
PERSON
program of "
one
CARDINAL
country ,
two
CARDINAL
systems " and of all national guidelines and policies for
Hong Kong
GPE
and
Macau
GPE
, to adhere to the principle of " Some to do and some not to do " , and to strive together with local figures in industrial and commercial circles to make more contributions to promoting
Macau
GPE
's economic stability and social development . -LRB- End
-RRB- Xinhua News Agency
PERSON
,
Buenos Aires
ORG
,
April 7th
DATE
, by reporter
Hong Xue
PERSON
The handover ceremony for
China
GPE
mechanical products purchased by
Argentina
GPE
's
LaRioja Province
GPE
using a loan provided by
the Bank of China
ORG
, was held
today
DATE
in
Catamarca City
GPE
of this province . This is the
first
ORDINAL
time that
China
GPE
's mechanical products have entered
Argentina
GPE
in large quantities . Minister of
China
GPE
's
Mechanical Industry Ministry
ORG
,
Xuding Bao
PERSON
, who came specially to attend the handing - over and taking - over ceremony , handed this group of mechanical products whose total value is
5.5 million US dollars
MONEY
, to
Masa
ORG
, the governor of
LaRioja Province
GPE
. These products included
more than 1800
CARDINAL
sets of tractors and road - building machinery . Minister
Xuding Bao
PERSON
and Governor
Masa
PERSON
delivered ebullient speeches in the ceremony , both hoped to use this as a start to expand trade between the
two
CARDINAL
countries and to promote development in other areas of the
two
CARDINAL
countries . Recently ,
the Bank of China
ORG
provided
Argentina
GPE
with loan of
20 million US dollars
MONEY
.
LaRioja Province
GPE
is the
first
ORDINAL
to use this loan to import
China
GPE
's products . -LRB- End
-RRB-
PERSON
According to presentations , the principal features of the industrial production of
1997
DATE
are : -- Production increased steadily . The growth rate was somewhat lower than that of
last year
DATE
. The nation 's county and above county industries accomplished an
annual
DATE
industrial added value of
2.0476 trillion yuan
MONEY
, calculated by comparable prices ,
10.9 %
PERCENT
higher than that of
last year
DATE
, somewhat dropping in growth rate . There were some fluctuations in growth rates of
every quarter
CARDINAL
of the whole year , but the difference was not significant , which can be regarded as a steady operation . The growth rate of
State
ORG
owned industries was basically stable . Collective industries dropped substantially .
The
annual
DATE
added value of
State
ORG
owned and
State
ORG
owned holding enterprises was
1.1726 trillion yuan
MONEY
,
7.1 %
PERCENT
higher than that of
last year
DATE
; the added value of collective industries was
613.2 billion yuan
MONEY
. Growing
11.7 %
PERCENT
, but growth rate declined
6 %
PERCENT
from that of
last year
DATE
; the industrial added value of other economic types was
445 billion
MONEY
, a
13.4 %
PERCENT
growth , and a
3 %
PERCENT
climb from that of
last year
DATE
. Additionally , the
annual
DATE
added value of light industry was
885.5 billion yuan
MONEY
,
11.5 %
PERCENT
higher than that of
last year
DATE
; the added value of heavy industry was
1.1621 trillion yuan
MONEY
, a
10.4 %
PERCENT
growth . -- Industry restructuring made vigorous progress . From the view of main industrial products , the impact of self - generated adjustments due to market constraints was considerably significant . The production of such fundamental products as energy resources , main raw materials , etc. grew at a low rate subject to the impact of market demands . The national total production volume of disposable energy resources was
2 %
PERCENT
higher than that of
last year
DATE
. The growth of chemical fiber production , man - made board , synthetic fiber monomer and
ten
CARDINAL
types of non-ferrous metal , etc. was rather fast , with a
14.6 %
PERCENT
to
32.3 %
PERCENT
growth . Timber , machine - made paper , drugs made of chemical materials , etc. dropped
1.1 %
PERCENT
to
9.2 %
PERCENT
. Electromechanical products of an investment nature had ups and downs .
The production of internal - combustion engines , metal - cutting machines , large , medium and small - sized tractors , vans , motor trucks , etc. dropped
1.6 %
PERCENT
to
10.3 %
PERCENT
. Electrical and high science and technology products grew considerably .
Sedans
PERSON
, digital program - controlled switches , electronic computers , large - scale integrated circuits , etc. grew by
21.9 %
PERCENT
to
1.7
CARDINAL
times . The production of main consumer products grew or dropped significantly subject to the restraints of market demands . Some basic consumer goods and food kept steady growth , among which candy , dairy products , beer , soft drink , cloth , and silk grew by
10 %
PERCENT
to
19.2 %
PERCENT
. Main durable consumer goods such as , washing machines , vacuum cleaners , room air - conditioners , color TVs , music centers , etc. grew by
10.7 %
PERCENT
to
47.9 %
PERCENT
; bicycles , electric fans , exhaust fans , VCRs dropped by
0.4 %
PERCENT
to
16.8 %
PERCENT
. -- The rate of industrial production and marketing had some growth , whereas exports grew considerably . An
annual
DATE
industrial sales output value of
6.8354 trillion yuan
MONEY
was achieved ,
10.7 %
PERCENT
higher than that of
last year
DATE
, higher than the growth rate of the output of the same period . The sales rate of industrial products was
96.2 %
PERCENT
,
0.3 %
PERCENT
higher than that of
last year
DATE
; the export delivery value of industrial enterprises ' production for foreign trade export purposes was
954.5 billion yuan
MONEY
,
14.8 %
PERCENT
higher than that of
last year
DATE
. -- The level of economic benefits were recovered back .
From
January to November
DATE
, the composite index of the economic benefits of nationwide
370,000
CARDINAL
village and above village industrial enterprises with independent accountability was
89.4 %
PERCENT
,
3.4 %
PERCENT
higher than that of
the same period last year
DATE
. The analysis of
the State Statistical Bureau
ORG
shows ,
last year
DATE
, there were still certain problems during the industrial economy operation , for instance , capital defaults increased , deficits were still serious , fundamental products such as energy resources , raw materials , etc. grew at low rates , the transfer of industrial structure was considerably slow , and all these are restraining factors assailing the further healthy development of an industrial economy .
This year
DATE
, the spirit of
National Economy Work Conference
ORG
should be carried through and implemented , while deepening
State
ORG
- owned enterprise reform and continuing to reinforce restructuring , striving to increase effective demands , improving supply quality , promoting the healthy and steady development of an industrial economy . -LRB- End
-RRB-
PERSON
On the invitation of Prime Minister
Mahathir
PERSON
of
Malaysia
GPE
, Premier
Peng Li
PERSON
arrived in
Malaysia
GPE
on
the afternoon of December 10th , 1990
TIME
to carry out a friendly official visit . The picture showed Premier
Peng Li
PERSON
visiting
Malacca State Picture
PERSON
taken by
Xinhua News Agency
ORG
reporter
Shengnan Li
PERSON
After
five years
DATE
of negotiation process ,
the " Conventions on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
LAW
" was adopted by
the United Nations General Assembly
ORG
in
December 2006
DATE
, thus became the
first
ORDINAL
human rights convention passed by international society in
the 21st century
DATE
.
The " Conventions on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
LAW
" was opened for signature of the member states of
the United Nations
ORG
since
March 30 , 2007
DATE
. It came into effect once the states parties reached
20
CARDINAL
.
Jamaica
GPE
was the
first
ORDINAL
country to officially approve the convention . On
April 3 of this year
DATE
,
Ecuador
GPE
officially approved the convention and became the
20th
ORDINAL
state party . The convention began to enter its
30 - day
DATE
automatic effective procedure . Up until now ,
127
CARDINAL
countries have signed the convention ,
25
CARDINAL
of which have officially approved it . The purpose of
the " Conventions on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
LAW
" is to promote , protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities , and to promote respect for their inherent dignity . Its key content is to ensure that persons with disabilities will enjoy the same rights as healthy people do and can live in the capacity of full citizens so that they can have equal opportunity to make valuable contributions to society . While residents of the richest province in
Bolivia
GPE
,
Santa Cruz
GPE
, were fervently celebrating the victory of a referendum on autonomy , President
Morales
PERSON
warned that the referendum was " illegal and unconstitutional " .
In a speech broadcast to the nation ,
Morales
PERSON
said , " The election is illegal and unconstitutional . It is not as successful as some families wished . " He claimed that the election was a " complete failure " , and stressed that the high rates of voter abstention and opposing votes has already made this referendum not legal . He said , " Unfortunately , the referendum has already split up the province of
Santa Cruz
GPE
. " Many people are worried about widespread instances of violence in
Santa Cruz
GPE
after the referendum . During the referendum , numerous conflicts have occurred between supporters and militants opposed to autonomy , injuring
at least 20
CARDINAL
people . Military leaders of
Bolivia
GPE
said that they take this action of fighting for autonomy as a threat to the country 's territorial integrity .
Next month
DATE
,
three
CARDINAL
other provinces in the lower eastern region that are held by the opposition party will hold referenda on autonomy . By that time , this crisis will deepen .
Two
CARDINAL
other provinces are also considering following suit ; there are a total of
nine
CARDINAL
provinces in
Bolivia
GPE
. The incident happened in
March
DATE
once made this small county town located in eastern
Qinghai
GPE
-
Tibet Plateau
GPE
restless .
However , before the arrival of the "
May Day
DATE
" , this place had resumed its past peace . This small town , which is well - known for
the Labuleng Lamasery
ORG
, also gives out unique and mystical charm once again . The famous scenic spot
Labuleng Lamasery
PERSON
has also ushered in an increasing number of tourists during the festival . The guide lama led the tourists from across the country who came here out of admiration to visit every structure here
one
CARDINAL
by
one
CARDINAL
starting from the ticket sales office and to feel the beauty and magic of
Tibetan
NORP
Buddhism . " I talked to my friend in
Gannan
GPE
over the phone before I came . It is very safe to travel here . There is no need to worry . " A middle - aged tourist from
Lanzhou Electric Corporation
ORG
kept videotaping while asking the guide various questions in religion and history endlessly at the same time . At the side of the arena for scriptural dialect in front of
the Great Temple of the Golden Tile
FAC
,
two
CARDINAL
young female tourists from
Zhejiang Province
GPE
were exchanging cameras with each other to take a picture with a lama as souvenir .
Two
CARDINAL
Tibetan
NORP
women at the side who came to worship
Buddha
PERSON
smiled back in return of their greetings .
Despite undergoing a journey of
30 hours
TIME
by train and
four hours
TIME
by car , they still felt that it was worthwhile :. " It is because the scenery here is still holy and beautiful .
A few days ago
DATE
,
the People 's Olympic Forum
ORG
with the theme "
2008 Beijing Olympics : Humanistic Ideals and Harmonious World
WORK_OF_ART
" was jointly held by
the China Democratic League Central Committee
ORG
and
the China Democratic League Beijing Municipal Committee
ORG
to act in the ideal of humanistic
Olympics
EVENT
and give full play to the power of all circles in society .
Jiang Shusheng
PERSON
, Vice-chairman of
the Standing Committee of the National People 's Congress
ORG
and Chairman of
the China Democratic League Central Committee
ORG
; and
Suo Lisheng
PERSON
, member of
the Standing Committee of the National People 's Congress
ORG
and Vice-chairman of
the China Democratic League Central Committee
ORG
; attended the forum .
Ge Jianping
ORG
, Vice - chairman of
the Beijing Municipal Committee
ORG
of the Political Consultative Conference and Chairman of
the China Democratic League Beijing Municipal Committee
ORG
read out the " Advocate Humanistic Olympics and
Advance Harmony
PERSON
in
the Capital Proposal
LOC
" of
the China Democratic League Beijing Municipal Committee
ORG
to all league members . He proposed the vast numbers of league members in
Beijing
GPE
to lead by example and be the
first
ORDINAL
to set an example around the humanistic
Olympics
EVENT
ideal and be good champions and practitioners in heightening public civilization in the capital . Experts attending the forum made excellent speeches in respective areas including " humanistic
Olympics
EVENT
" , " safe
Olympics
EVENT
" , " cultural harmony " and " urban public civilization " .
Huang Yaling
PERSON
, Director of
Beijing Sport University Center for Olympic Studies
ORG
, advocated people to show more concern about
Olympic
EVENT
safety and not to neglect safety issues in food , transportation , and venues . In the area of food , she suggested entire process of testing in purchase , production , and imports , as well as adoption of transparent cooking operation .
While mobile phones have brought tremendous convenience in information exchanges to people , they have also brought about endless troubles to people .
First
ORDINAL
, the endless junk text messages , and then the torture of the "
one
CARDINAL
- ring calls " at
all hours of the day
TIME
and night . The most annoying is that up until now , besides the positions made known by relevant government departments , there is still no concrete action to resolve the problem . It seems that since consumers have chosen to use mobile phones , they should endure this unexpected torture . The continuous concern by the media has helped people to heighten their awareness against "
one
CARDINAL
- ring calls " . It is no longer easy to use "
one
CARDINAL
- ring calls " to defraud mobile phone user fees . However , it does not mean that people can tolerate the existence of "
one
CARDINAL
- ring calls " and that they can give up the close questioning of the responsibilities of relevant government departments and telecommunication operators . The
first
ORDINAL
response of many mobile phone users when they hear the "
one
CARDINAL
- ring call " is : " Why does n't anyone attend to this ? " A survey conducted by websites including
Sina
ORG
and Tencent with
close to 200,000
CARDINAL
netizens
ORG
showed that
over 70 percent
PERCENT
of people frequently encounter "
one
CARDINAL
- ring calls " and
68.5 percent
PERCENT
of people believed that telecommunication operators take part in the profit - sharing of "
one
CARDINAL
- ring calls " .
Since realistic toy weapons could be mixed up with real ones , confuse the police 's attention , and threaten social safety ,
15
CARDINAL
U. S.
PERSON
states attempted to enhance impacts on imitation weapons on top of the current gun control bills .
The United States
GPE
" Ming Pao Daily News " reported on the
4th
ORDINAL
that according to a statistics of
National Conference on State Legislature
ORG
, there are
seven
CARDINAL
proposed bills on restrictions of imitation firearms being discussed in
15
CARDINAL
of the U. S. states ; there have been
21
CARDINAL
such bills passed and implemented since
1990
DATE
. These bills concern the prohibition of placing imitation firearms in cars , or prohibiting sales of toy guns in convenience stores .
Tennessee
GPE
state lawmakers are considering a proposal by state representative ,
DeBerry
PERSON
. The proposal will make it a misdemeanor to " intentionally display or expose an imitation firearm in a public place in a threatening manner . " However , exceptions include justifiable self defense , lawful hunting , and displays such as a museum collection .
DeBerry
PERSON
said that this proposal would help to prevent a tragedy that occurred in
West Memphis
GPE
last year
DATE
, when a
12 - year - old
DATE
boy holding a toy gun was killed by the police . The drug price control plan that
India
GPE
plans to adopt has caused dissatisfaction among
Indian
NORP
drug makers , who believe this will not only slow down pharmaceutical exports but also make many workers in the industry lose their jobs .
Reports said that
Indian
NORP
Minister for
Chemicals
ORG
,
Fertilizer and Steel
ORG
,
Ram Vilas Paswan
PERSON
hopes to implement price control on more drugs .
Paswan
PERSON
hopes to make a
one
CARDINAL
- time price reduction on the
354
CARDINAL
essential drugs designated by the
WHO
ORG
-LRB- including in them some hypertension drugs and antibiotics
-RRB- first
PERSON
through negotiations and then connect future increase of drug prices with inflation . Currently
India
GPE
has a total of
74
CARDINAL
price - controlled drugs , which will be increased to an amount of
more than 40 %
PERCENT
of the drugs sold by
India
GPE
.
FICCI
ORG
Vice President
Habil Khorakiwala
PERSON
said that if price - control measures are promulgated , even large drug makers will find it hard to maintain their budget for research and development of drugs .
Ajay Piramal
PERSON
, chairman of drug maker
Nicholas Piramal
PERSON
, said , " The continuously falling prices of common export drugs have resulted in thin profits , so they ca n't impose limits on profits any more . On the contrary , the government should consider how to encourage us to increase investment in research and development of drugs . " To celebrate the
10th
ORDINAL
anniversary of
Hong Kong 's
GPE
return to the motherland , a prize - containing essay competition entitled " The
10th
ORDINAL
Anniversary of
Hong Kong 's
GPE
Return Through My Eyes
ORG
" sponsored by the station of
Voice of Huaxia
ORG
, a
China National Radio
ORG
program aired to
Hong Kong
GPE
and
Macao
GPE
regions , started
today
DATE
in
Beijing
GPE
. This event will start from
this day
DATE
to
May 31 , 2007
DATE
. Director General of
China National Radio
ORG
Yang Bo
PERSON
said at a press conference held here that this event aimed to demonstrate the great achievements that
Hong Kong
GPE
has made in successfully implementing "
one
CARDINAL
country ,
two
CARDINAL
systems , " "
Hong Kong
GPE
governed by
Hong Kong
GPE
people , " and a high degree of autonomy during
the ten years
DATE
since its return .
It records the passion , joy , and pride that
Hong Kong
GPE
residents have felt during
these ten years
DATE
since the reunification with the motherland . According to the information , the review committee for this essay competition event will be jointly composed of mainland experts and scholars from the relevant departments and
Hong Kong
GPE
celebrities . The review committee will select some
first
ORDINAL
,
second
ORDINAL
, and
third
ORDINAL
prizes among the essays . Relevant heads from
the CPPCC National Committee
ORG
, the
Hong Kong
GPE
and
Macao Affairs Office
ORG
of
the State Council
ORG
,
the Information Office of the State Council
ORG
, and
the General Administration of Radio , Film and Television
ORG
as well as representatives from all walks of life of society totaling
more than 100
CARDINAL
people attended
today
DATE
's press conference .
Chinanews.com
ORG
,
Nov. 28
DATE
. According to a report by
Hong Kong
GPE
- based
Ta Kung Pao
PERSON
,
Hong Kong 's
GPE
Permanent Secretary for
Economic Development
ORG
and Labor
Cheung Kin - chung
PERSON
said on
the 27th
DATE
that in
the past three months
DATE
the labor market in
Hong Kong
GPE
continued to improve as unemployment rates for college graduates , low - skilled workers , and middle - aged people all saw some decline . He expected the unemployment situation to continue to improve since the internal demand in
Hong Kong
GPE
remains very strong on
the eve of the lunar new year
DATE
. After attending the launching ceremony of "
Youth Employment Home Base
WORK_OF_ART
" by the labor department
yesterday
DATE
,
Cheung Kin - chung
PERSON
said that from
August to
DATE
October this year
DATE
,
34,000
CARDINAL
college graduates and departed students successfully found jobs , an increase of
3,100
CARDINAL
people compared with
the same period last year
DATE
. Unemployment rates for young people
ages 15 to 24
DATE
fell slightly by .6 % to
10.7 %
PERCENT
.
Whereas , unemployment rates for low - skilled workers and middle - aged people were
5.1 %
PERCENT
and
4.1 %
PERCENT
over
the past three months
DATE
, down by
.8 %
PERCENT
and
1.3 %
PERCENT
respectively from
the same period last year
DATE
.
Xinhua News Agency
ORG
,
Beijing
GPE
,
December 4
DATE
, by wire -LRB- Reporter
Zhang Miaomiao
PERSON
-RRB-
PERSON
" As of
December 4
DATE
,
Beijing
GPE
has handled a total of
22,600
CARDINAL
arbitration cases
this year
DATE
,
20 %
PERCENT
more than those in
2005
DATE
. Of all the arbitration cases ,
59 %
PERCENT
of them were cases in labor remuneration . " An official in labor dispute arbitration office under
the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Labor and Social Security
ORG
told the reporter on the
4th
ORDINAL
that labor dispute cases in
Beijing
GPE
have upward trend
every year
DATE
, with the
annual
DATE
average increase rate of
30 %
PERCENT
. According to the report , in order to prevent ordinary labor disputes from becoming " legalized , "
Beijing city
GPE
has established
43
CARDINAL
labor dispute mediation workstations in all districts and some streets . When workers and their employers in the different community have labor disputes about labor contracts , labor remuneration , and social insurance , etc. , they do not have to take these " lawsuits " to the labor department . Rather , they can settle them in their area .
Motorcycles and electric cars have both been banned . It 's not even certain if we can take a bus now . Public transportation enterprises say that there needs to be a
two - thirds
CARDINAL
increase in the number of buses if they are not going to be " overloaded " . One can well imagine how many people will be refused entry to buses when overloading them is really prohibited . I do n't know how those ordinary people can get around then ? By private car or taxi ? They are clearly unable to afford either , so the only choice left for them is to choose to walk or ride a bike . But the city of
Guangzhou
GPE
is so big that getting around on foot or by bike will be an extremely torturous affair . Every citizen has his own right of the road . Citizens all have the right to independently choose when and how to use the road .
In the aim of achieving harmony and order in city traffic , ordinary people have already relinquished a fairly large part of their right to the road by allowing wider roads for the owners of private cars . Morally speaking , the government and the rich should actually feel greatly indebted to them . But the truth is different . The elite have greatly deceived the people and with insatiable avariciousness have deprived ordinary people of the pathetic little remaining right to the road with which they have been left . It seems that in their eyes , biking or walking is the obvious choice of ordinary people . As an ordinary person who can not afford a private car , living in
Guangzhou
GPE
is simply too depressing . But other than a few curses , what else can we do ?
Xinhua News Agency
ORG
BEIJING
GPE
,
Dec. 18
DATE
-LRB- Reporter
Zhang Xiaosong
PERSON
-RRB-
The Ministry of Land and Resources
ORG
and
the State Development and Reform Commission
ORG
recently issued the
2006
DATE
edition of
the Schedule of Restricted Land Use Projects
ORG
and
the Schedule of Prohibited Land Use Projects
ORG
.
Film studios , racecar tracks , public cemeteries and other items have been listed as restricted land use projects . Vacation homes , golf courses , horsetracks and other projects have been ordered prohibited . At the same time , the previously issued
1999
DATE
edition of the schedule was rescinded . On
the 18th
DATE
, the reporter learned from
the Ministry of Land and Resources
ORG
that the
first
ORDINAL
fifteen
CARDINAL
categories in the
2006
DATE
edition of
the Schedule of Prohibited Land Use Projects
ORG
are respectively coal , oil and natural gas and chemical engineering , information industry , steel , nonferrous metals , gold , building materials , pharmaceuticals , machine manufacturing , shipbuilding , light industry , textiles , tobacco , firefighting , and others . All levels of
the Land and Resource Administration
ORG
authorities and
Investment Administration
ORG
authorities are , without exception , not allowed to process procedures related to any construction projects listed in
the Schedule of Prohibited Land Use Projects
ORG
or construction projects that use the listed techniques , technologies or equipments . According to the provisions of the newly issued
Schedule of Prohibited Land Use Projects
ORG
, property development projects involving vacation home type real estate , golf course , horsetrack , newly built training centers for the
Party
ORG
and government organizations , state enterprises , business entities , mineral resource exploration for which mineral exploration rights have not been legally obtained , and mineral resourse extraction projects for which mineral extractions rights have not been legally obtained have all been ordered prohibited . The share of the spirited emerging markets within the world economy is growing . Particularly in
China
GPE
and
India
GPE
, their rapid growths will contribute to the maintenance of the world economy . However , this has also caused the world economy to become increasingly sensitive to the economic conditions of these countries .
Once these countries suffer from an economic downturn , the world economy -LRB- especially the
Asian
NORP
economy
-RRB-
PERSON
will also be greatly affected . The intelligence unit of
The Economist of Britain
ORG
has predicted that in
2007
DATE
,
U.S.
GPE
economic growth will slow down significantly , and the growth rate will be
a mere 2 %
PERCENT
. This is largely caused by the profound changes that have occurred in
America
GPE
's housing markets . After
years
DATE
of wild increases , the housing prices and trading volumes of real estate in the
U.S.
GPE
are both declining . The booming housing market was
one
CARDINAL
of the main impetuses for the development of the
U.S.
GPE
economy to reach its climax from
2004 to 2006
DATE
. While the economies of
Euro
LOC
area continued to warm up in
2006
DATE
, they are expected to slow down at a steady pace in
2007
DATE
.
Japan
GPE
's economy developed rapidly in
2006
DATE
, but it is also likely to slow down its pace of increase in
2007
DATE
and
2008
DATE
. In the next phase ,
Japan
GPE
's export growth will slow down significantly . The emerging areas in
Asia
LOC
will still witness the most rapid growth , where the growth rate is expected to parallel that of
the last century
DATE
in
mid-1990
DATE
's . The economic growth of
India
GPE
and
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ORG
will also slow down slightly in
2007
DATE
and
2008
DATE
.
China
GPE
's economy will continue to grow robustly , and this is boosted at a certain extent by the overheated investment in specific sectors . -LRB-
Chinanews.com
ORG
,
Dec. 15
DATE
,
Moscow
GPE
-RRB- The
Russian
NORP
police have said that
Litvinenko
PERSON
, the defected
Russian
NORP
spy who was fatally poisoned , could have died because of a high level of business competition . But based on information in the hands of
British
NORP
police and
Litvinenko
PERSON
's final denunciation before his death , the focus of the investigation has locked onto the possibility that it was a political assassination involving the
Russian
NORP
security agency .
Russian
NORP
police revealed that while he was alive , after he fled to
England
GPE
,
Litvinenko
PERSON
was taken on by
Erinys
ORG
, a
British
NORP
company , where he was responsible for employee training . The international company is in charge of security for the petroleum industry and has
more than ten thousand
CARDINAL
employees .
Russian
NORP
police claim that
Erinys
ORG
has an important competitor RISC . The last people
Litvinenko
PERSON
saw while he was alive ,
Lugovoi
PERSON
and his friends , were all engaged in these industries .
Lugovoi
PERSON
is also a client of RISC .
An analysis by
Russian
NORP
police states that
Litvinenko
PERSON
died because of business competition . Besides an investigation being carried out by
British
NORP
police in
Russia
GPE
, international criminal police organizations have already become involved .